Recruiting a Senior Android Developer
The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight is recruiting a Senior Android Developer based in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge to develop and support a suite of innovative Android applications Read more…
Cold Chain Distribution and Deployment of a Covid-19 Vaccine
An article by Professor Phil Greening on the logistics of deploying a Covid-19 vaccine has been published in the Scottish national press. Articles featuring Phil Greening on the subject of Read more…
Hidden costs of online delivery
Julian Allen has contributed to an article in the guardian on the environmental impact of online shopping, read the full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/shortcuts/2020/feb/17/hidden-costs-of-online-delivery-environment
Professor Phil Greening on the competency trap: retailers/logistics providers risk future growth
In the first of a series of regular articles to be featured in My Logistics Magazine, Phil Greening discusses the concept of the competency trap in the current retail/logistics environment. Read more…
Centre for Sustainable Road Freight contributes to the OECD-ITF report
Maja Piecyk, Julian Allen and Allan Woodburn, University of Westminster, contributed a chapter to the OECD-ITF report on Policies to Extend the Life of Road Assets. The report it is Read more…
BEIS Secondment
Dr Anna Keyes from Heriot Watt University has been seconded to BEIS for a period of 3 months. As part of her secondment Anna will be reviewing the recent batch Read more…
New Posts created at Heriot Watt University to support the Centre
Two new Assistant Professor posts have been created at Heriot Watt University to support the development of new sustainable logistic courses and a portfolio of executive development courses. The new Read more…
New InnovateUK Project: Vehicle 2 Grid
Flexible Power Systems and Heriot-Watt University have secured a grant from InnovateUK for a £150,000 project to investigate the feasibility of storing energy in the batteries of electrically powered lorries Read more…
New InnovateUK Project: Advanced Trailers
Heavy Goods Vehicles are a vital component of the global economy but they also make a disproportionate contribution to noxious emissions and greenhouses gases. Experts from Flexible Power Systems and Read more…
Justin Bishop wins EPSRC prize to commercialise the ‘SRF Decarbonisation Toolkit’ with FTA
Justin Bishop won an EPRSC Impact Accelerator Account Knowledge Transfer Fellowship to commercialise the ‘SRF Decarbonisation Toolkit’ in conjunction with the Freight Transport Association. As part of the Fellowship, industry-strength Read more…