Guidelines on Standards and Procedures to enable Underground Freight Transport systems.

这个为期七个月的合作项目旨在确定地下货运系统（UFT）设计、建造、运营和认证所需的标准和程序指南。虽然UFT系统正在全球范围内积极考虑，但相关的特定SP尚未确定、汇编或发布。该项目的关键和颠覆性创新在于，它首次确定了新型UFT系统的SP，该系统将定义未来的货运基础设施。UFT系统是21世纪比卡车更智能的货物运输方法。他们致力于应对政府提出的“未来交通”、“清洁增长”和"2050年零碳目标“的”重大挑战“。UFT的货物在封闭管道（通常在地下）中自动运行，在电动胶囊中运输。与其他货运模式相比，它们提供了重大的成本、社会环境和可持续性效益，并通过提供无人驾驶送货服务，在COVID-19等大流行期间受益。设计原则是可扩展的，因此可以运输手提箱，集装箱，集装箱和散装产品。项目负责人Mole Solutions Limited（MSL）在英国，中国，欧洲和美国承担了UFT研究项目，并被公认为UFT全球领导者。他们提供有关UFT要求的详细输入。项目合作者ARUP是一家一级土木工程公司。这些文件详细说明隧道工程的可行性，以及如何克服穿越主要基建设施（公路、铁路及公用设施）的挑战。谘询有关政府部门及机构是工程计划的主要部分。UFT的概念受到全球关注--2018年在北京举行的国际会议上，来自中国、荷兰、瑞士、美国和英国的论文被纳入其中。与会者一致认为，需要制定一套国际标准。在2019年DfT科学咨询理事会的一次演讲中，也有人提出并同意迫切需要一套UFT标准。该项目的交付成果是一份正式报告和一份SP组合，将为国家和潜在的国际标准提供基础。它将为英国在这一全球重要的颠覆性创新的发展中发挥关键作用，并使UFT的巨大全球市场得以实现。

This seven month collaborative Project seeks to identify guidelines for the Standards and Procedures required to design, build, operate and qualify an Underground Freight Transportation (UFT) system.Whilst UFT systems are being actively and increasingly considered on a global basis, associated specific SP's have yet to be identified, compiled or published. The key and disruptive innovation of this Project is that it identifies, for the first time SPs for the novel UFT system that will define the freight transport infrastructure of the future.UFT systems are a 21st century, smarter method of transporting goods than trucks. They address and align with the government's 'Grand Challenges' of 'Future Mobility' and of 'Clean Growth' and its' Zero Carbon 2050 target.UFT goods move in autonomous, electrically powered capsules travelling in an enclosed conduit, normally underground. They offer major cost, socio-environmental and sustainability benefits compared to other freight movement modes and would be beneficial during pandemics such as COVID-19 by providing an unmanned delivery service. Design principles are scalable and so can transport tote bins, palletised goods, shipping containers and bulk products.Project lead Mole Solutions Limited (MSL) has undertaken UFT study projects in the UK, China, Europe and the USA and is recognised as a UFT global leader. They provide the detailed inputs on UFT requirements.Project Collaborator ARUP is a tier 1 Civil Engineering company. They provide details of the feasibility of the tunnelling engineering and how challenges such as crossing key infrastructures (highway, rail and utilities) can be overcome.Consultation with appropriate government departments and institutes will form a major part of the project. A steering committee of leading academic and industry experts will advise.UFT concept is of global interest -- a 2018 international conference in Beijing included papers from China, Holland, Switzerland, USA and the UK. It was agreed a set of international standards are needed. At a presentation to DfT's Scientific Advisory Council in 2019 it was also proposed and agreed that a set of standards for UFT was urgently need.This project's deliverable is a formal report and an SP portfolio that will provide the basis of national, and potentially, international standards. It will provide a key role for the UK in the development of this globally important disruptive innovation, and enable the enormous world-wide market for UFT to materialise.