Centre for Sustainable Road Freight 2018-2023

该项目汇集了来自赫里奥特瓦特大学、剑桥大学、威斯敏斯特大学和达勒姆大学的团队：提供多学科的重点研究，以实现和支持英国公路货运部门脱碳的激进措施。研究人员得到了一个由22个工业合作伙伴组成的联盟的支持，这些合作伙伴来自公路物流领域的用户、供应商和参与者。这些行业成员提供建议和指导，以及快速建立原型和实现解决方案的途径。第一个五年计划，由同一个团队进行，奠定了基础，并表明，激进的措施是必要的，以达到英国政府的二氧化碳减排目标。它还表明，物流解决方案、车辆技术和政策措施之间的整合至关重要。这一经验影响了拟议方案的设计。新的研究计划将运行5年，并有三个主题：(i)数据收集和管理，（ii）物流系统，和（iii）车辆技术。23个项目涵盖了这些主题。第一批项目（主要由EPSRC资助）将专注于减少有前途的战略深度脱碳技术和解决方案的障碍。这些项目将创建和整合新的数据、新的建模工具和决策支持系统，以形成关于技术和后勤解决方案的新见解，为尽早采用这些解决方案提供令人信服的论据，并为必要的政策措施提出建议。在对激进的物流选择进行建模和量化的愿望的推动下，这些模型将由工业合作伙伴开发并验证来自实际货运操作的数据，这些数据将通过新型自动化手段收集。将研究替代车辆燃料和动力系统以及显著降低能源消耗的方法。第二部分项目（主要由EPSRC和工业界资助）将侧重于扩展和优化有前途的技术的能力，并在应用于公路货运脱碳时增加其影响。应用研究到物流模式决策的动态和测试新的物流选择，如横向协作，共同装载和物流基础设施重组，将通过在第一链开发的工具实现。可持续道路货运中心（SRF）前5年开发的技术将在InnovateUK资助的财团合作伙伴的两次单独的全面现场试验中进行测试。路线图将为企业、政府部门和研究人员提供一种机制，以建立对未来的共同看法。第三部分的项目（由能源技术研究所资助）将侧重于实施能够立即产生影响的工具和实践。其中包括新颖而强大的软件系统，供行业用于数据收集、车辆特性描述和车队脱碳。对战略和政策驱动因素的研究也将确定影响技术和物流解决方案采用的最有力方式。道路货运系统生活实验室（“生活实验室”）是SRF五年研究计划的核心整合要素。中心的几乎每一个项目都将是其中的一部分。生活实验室将提供一个测试平台来测量和模拟货运操作；根据实时物流数据制定技术和后勤干预措施；对干预措施进行模拟测试；开发决策支持工具（基于SRF前5年的工作），并最终在实践中实施和试用这些工具和系统。Living Lab将基于一个集成的软件和数据平台，该平台目前正在由研究团队和行业合作伙伴建立。

This programme brings together teams from Herriot Watt University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Westminster and Durham University: providing a multidisciplinary focus on the research needed to enable and underpin radical measures to decarbonise the UK's road freight transport sector. The researchers are augmented by a consortium of 22 industrial partners, drawn from users, suppliers and participants in the road logistics sector. These industrial members provide advice and guidance as well as a rapid route to prototyping and implementation of solutions.The first 5-year programme, conducted by the same team, laid the foundations and showed that radical measures are necessary to hit the UK Government's CO2 reduction targets. It also showed that integration between logistics solutions, vehicle technology, and policy measures is essential. This experience has shaped the design of the proposed programme.The new research programme will run for 5 years and has three themes: (i) data collection and management, (ii) logistics systems, and (iii) vehicle technology. A portfolio of 23 projects spans the themes.The first strand of projects (funded mainly by EPSRC), will focus on reducing barriers to promising strategic, deep decarbonisation technologies and solutions. These projects will create and integrate new data, new modelling tools and decision support systems, to create new insights about technological and logistical solutions, compelling arguments for their early adoption and recommendations for the necessary policy measures. Driven by a desire to model and then quantify the benefits of radical logistics options, the models will be developed and validated with data from real freight operations by the industrial partners, collected by novel automated means. Alternative vehicle fuels and power trains and ways of significantly reducing energy consumption will be investigated.The second strand of projects (funded mainly by EPSRC and industry) will focus on extending and optimising the capabilities of promising technologies and on increasing their impact when applied to decarbonisation of road freight. Applied research into the dynamics of logistics mode decisions and testing of novel logistics options such as horizontal collaboration, co-loading and reorganisation of logistics infrastructure, will be enabled by tools developed in the first strand. Technologies developed in the first 5 years of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) will be tested in two separate full-scale field trials with consortium partners, funded by InnovateUK. Road-mapping will provide a mechanism for corporates, government departments and researchers to build a common view of the future.The projects in the third strand (funded by Energy Technologies Institute) will focus on implementation of tools and practices that offer immediate impact. These include novel and powerful software systems for industry to use in data collection and for vehicle characterisation and fleet decarbonisation. Research into the drivers of strategy and policy will, likewise identify the most powerful ways to influence adoption of technologies and logistics solutions. The Road Freight Systems Living Laboratory ('Living Lab') is the central integrating element of the SRF's five-year research programme. Almost every project in the Centre will be part of it. The Living Lab will provide a test bed to measure and model freight operations; to develop technical and logistical interventions based on real-time logistics data; to test the interventions in simulation; to develop decision support tools (several based on work done in the first 5 years of the SRF) and eventually to implement and trial the tools and systems in practice. The Living Lab will be based on an integrated software and data platform that is currently being built by the research team and industry partners.