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…
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…
Last week’s cover story of Transport Engineer compared platooning of heavy goods vehicles with higher capacity vehicles. At first glance, these two concepts seem similar: connect two or more heavy Read more…
The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a new Grant from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) that will Read more…
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…
Over the last year, various parts of the national government have woken-up to the importance of the road freight industry on Carbon emissions. The SRF has responded to three separate Read more…
The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) is pleased to announce our new ‘15by25’ (15% by 2025) Carbon Reduction Programme. In addition to the existing benefits of membership, every fleet Read more…
A PhD student and I recently performed a study of heavy vehicle operations within Cambridge. Cambridge is a small city – easy to study since we live here! Nevertheless, the Read more…
Interesting review of the SRF Optimiser: https://www.factsmagazine.co.uk/news/srf-optimiser/
There is an interesting story, published in various places on the Internet, about the ‘standard’ track gauge for US railways. (Standard gauge is the most widely used railway track gauge Read more…