Intelligent Multimodal Logistics Control and Brokerage Centre

关于物流运输量和成本的公开/公布的信息非常广泛。统计信息被分成非常广泛的类别，难以用于任何实际目的。公司也面临着相当大的压力，要求将交通从公路转移到更可持续的方式，但铁路对市场的渗透率，特别是英国内部物流，仍然很低。整个项目的目的是开发和测试一个系统，据信该系统将能够进一步实现重大的模式转换。该项目的大学部分将开发一个监测机制，既将确定实际实现的效益水平，又确定进一步行动的潜力，以促进更多的转让。考文垂大学的贡献将是与合作伙伴，货运代理和运输提供商合作，了解他们在不同模式模式下运营的成本和效益。然后，大学团队将建立一个财务和技术模型，使每个利益相关者的成本和收益能够从他们在试验阶段采取的行动中计算出来。这些信息将定期报告，每个利益相关者都可以看到自己的数据，但公开报告保护个人机密。

The public/published information about logistics transport volumes and costs is very broad. The statistical information is split into very broad categories and difficult to use for any practical purpose. There is also considerable pressure for companies to transfer traffic away from road to more sustainable means, but the levels of rail penetration of the markets, especially internal UK logistics, are stubbornly low. The purpose of the project as a whole is to develop and test a system which it is believed will enable significant further modal transfer. The University part of the project will be to develop a monitoring mechanism which will both establish the levels of benefit actually achieved and identify potential for further actions to facilitate more transfer.The Coventry University contribution will be to work with partners, freight forwarders and transport providers to understand the costs and benefits for each of them from operating in different modal patterns. The University team will then build a financial and technical model which will enable the costs and benefits for each stakeholder to be computed from the actions they take during the trial stage. This information will be reported regularly, each stakeholder seeing their own data, but the open reports protecting individual confidentiality.