Centre for Sustainable Road Freight Transport

CfSRFT汇集了英国两个领先的学术团体，以实现公路货运在经济、社会和环境方面的可持续发展。这将是第一次有一个具有国际地位的团队全面解决该行业可持续发展的完整“三重底线”。该团队结合了物流、道路货运车辆工程、人为因素和可持续发展方面的专业知识。该中心的总体目标是：(1)实施一项全面的方案，研究道路货运的可持续性：从战术到战略；从基础到应用；微观和宏观层面(Ii)为公路货运挑战制定创新的技术和业务解决方案(Iii)评估解决方案，以实现政府公路货运部门的短期、中期和长期减排目标，特别是制定一份可实现的路线图，以便到2050年将公路货运造成的二氧化碳排放量减少80%。中心的研究将在四个“主题”下进行，协调各贡献学科，跨越利益攸关方和受益者：核心活动：管理研究组合，以最大限度地提高质量和影响；传播成果、见解和技术，并绘制道路货运部门实现政府排放目标的路线。数据管理、情景分析和决策支持工具：创建综合数据库，收集关于物流系统、货运流量以及相关成本和外部影响的数据；进行研究，以确定优化物流运营的最佳方式，以最大限度地减少二氧化碳排放，为公司和政策制定者开发决策支持工具。优化长途运输：通过对长途车辆的尺寸和重量、轮胎、结构和空气动力学、管理和运营所在的物流基础设施进行工程设计，优化长途车辆的能源效率。可持续城市货运：通过工程设计和司机界面、管理以及运营所在的城市物流系统，优化城市运输车辆的效率。该中心将拥有6名全职研究人员和6名博士生，以及12名相关的学术研究人员。一名计算机干事将建立向工业界和政府传播成果所需的软件和数据库基础设施和工具。一名全职经理将管理与工业界的合作，并将该中心建设成一个经济上可持续的单位，能够从研究、开发知识产权以及确定和提供适当的服务中产生收入流。该中心将得到该行业公司组成的工业联盟的支持，指导研究，提供合作和实施合作伙伴，并在头五年提供约20%的资金。中心工作的受益者将包括运输运营商和该部门的客户，从而实现更高的效率和更低的成本和影响。制造业供应链将获得新的工程选择和新技术的设计指导，而邻近的行业，如软件和电子，将获得新的产品和服务机会。政策制定者和决策者将受益于新的见解和工具，提供更好的信息和预测能力，以及为解决排放目标提供实际途径的路线图。学术界将获得丰富和综合的数据资源，物流和车辆工程方面的各种相关工具和方法，以及物流管理和重型工程方面的卓越中心。广大公众将从降低商品成本、交通拥堵、噪音和对环境的影响中受益。

The CfSRFT brings together two of the UK's leading academic groups to make road freight economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. This will be the first time that a team of international standing has fully addressed the complete 'triple bottom line' of sustainability in the sector. The team combines expertise in logistics, road freight vehicle engineering, human factors and sustainability. It will work in partnership with industry players, who will help set the research agenda and drive the adoption of results by the road freight industry.The overall aims of the Centre are to:(i) perform a comprehensive programme to research on the sustainability of road freight transport: from tactical to strategic; fundamental to applied; micro and macro-level perspectives(ii) develop innovative technical and operational solutions to road freight transport challenges(iii) assess solutions to meet short, medium and long-term Government emissions reduction targets for the road freight sector, in particular, develop an achievable roadmap to provide an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions due to road freight transport by 2050The research of the Centre will be run under four 'themes' coordinating the contributing disciplines, spanning the stakeholders and beneficiaries: Core Activities: managing the research portfolio to maximise quality and impact; disseminating results, insights and technology and mapping the road freight sector's path to meeting Government's emissions targets.Data Management, Scenario Analysis and Decision Support Tools: creating integrated databases, assembling data on logistics systems, freight traffic flows and related costs and externalities; performing studies to determine the best ways to optimise logistic operations so as to minimise CO2 emissions, developing decision-support tools for companies and policy-makers.Optimising Long Haul Transport: optimising the energy efficiency of long haul vehicles through engineering of their size and weight, tyres, structures and aerodynamics, their management and the logistics infrastructure within which they operate.Sustainable Urban Freight: optimising the efficiency of urban delivery vehicles through their engineering design and driver interfaces, their management and the city logistics systems within which they operateThe Centre will have six full-time research staff and six PhD students with twelve associated academic investigators. A computer officer will build software and database infrastructure and tools needed to disseminate the outputs to industry and government. A full time Manager will manage the engagement with industry and build the Centre into an economically sustainable unit capable of generating income streams from research, exploiting IP and identifying and providing services as appropriate.The Centre will be supported by an Industrial Consortium of companies from the sector, steering the research, providing collaboration and implementation partners and providing about 20% of the funding over the first five years. Beneficiaries of the Centre's work will include transport operators and customers within the sector, achieving higher efficiencies and reduced costs and impact. The manufacturing supply chain will gain new engineering options and design guidance in new technologies, while adjacent industries such as software and electronics will gain new product and service opportunities. Policy and decision-makers will benefit from new insights and tools, offering better information and prediction capabilities as well as a roadmap which provide practical routes to addressing emissions targets. The academic community will gain a rich and integrated data resource, a wide variety of related tools and methodologies in logistics and vehicle engineering and a centre of excellence in logistics management and heavy engineering. The public at large stand to gain from reduced cost of goods, congestion, noise and environmental impact.