Centre for Sustainable Road Freight Transport

CfSRFT汇集了英国两个领先的学术团体，使公路货运在经济、社会和环境上可持续发展。这将是一个具有国际地位的团队首次全面解决该行业可持续性的完整“三重底线”。该团队结合了物流、公路货运车辆工程、人为因素和可持续性方面的专业知识。中心将与业界伙伴合作，协助制订研究议程，并推动道路货运业采纳研究成果。中心的整体目标是：（i）执行一项全面计划，研究道路货运的可持续性：从战术到战略;从基础到应用;微观和宏观层面的视角㈡制定创新的技术和业务解决方案，以应对道路货运的挑战㈢评估解决方案，以满足政府对道路货运部门的短期，中期和长期减排目标，特别是制定一个可实现的路线图，到2050年将道路货运的二氧化碳排放量减少80%该中心的研究将在四个“主题”下进行，协调贡献学科，跨越利益相关者和受益者：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径。数据管理、情景分析和决策支持工具：创建综合数据库，收集物流系统、货运流量以及相关成本和外部性的数据;进行研究，以确定优化物流运营的最佳方式，从而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。通过对长途运输车辆的尺寸和重量、轮胎、结构和空气动力学、管理和物流基础设施的设计，优化长途运输车辆的能源效率。可持续城市货运：通过工程设计和驾驶员界面、管理和城市物流系统优化城市运输车辆的效率。该中心将有六名全职研究人员和六名博士生，以及十二名相关的学术研究人员。一名计算机干事将建立软件和数据库基础设施以及向工业界和政府传播产出所需的工具。一名全职经理将管理与产业界的接触，并将中心建设成一个经济上可持续的单位，能够从研究中产生收入流，利用知识产权，并酌情确定和提供服务。中心将得到该行业公司的工业联盟的支持，指导研究，提供合作和实施伙伴，并在头五年提供约20%的资金。该中心工作的受益者将包括该部门的运输运营商和客户，从而提高效率，降低成本和影响。制造业供应链将获得新的工程选择和新技术的设计指导，而软件和电子等相邻行业将获得新的产品和服务机会。政策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，以及提供实现排放目标的实用路线图。学术界将获得丰富的综合数据资源，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。一般公众将从降低的商品成本、拥挤、噪音和环境影响中获益。

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.