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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…

We are calling for papers for a Special Issue of the journal Sustainability on research into collective interventions to radically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from freight transport, in line Read more…

Tesla’s claims for its new electric truck require some scrutiny.  Tesla claims that the new truck will have a range of 800kms and an energy consumption of 1.25kWh/km.  Running 800km Read more…

 Decarbonisation road transport: a review of the technical, operational and managerial options Professor Alan McKinnon, who is a researcher in the Centre and Professor of Logistics at Kühne Logistics University, Read more…

“Fleet engineers choosing from the array of supposed money-saving interventions now have evidence-based independent data on tap”  “It is easy to see why this body has won the enthusiastic support Read more…

Congratulations to SRF Researcher Richard Stephens of Cambridge University Engineering Department – on winning the Head of Department’s prize for the 2016 Zeiss Phototgraphy Competition. Richard’s winning entry to the Read more…

The SRF research team is part of two successful bids for the £20m Low Emission Freight and Logistics Trial, announced by Transport Minister John Hayes on 11th January. The two Read more…

The SRF has been part of a successfully consortium bid for a European project on high capacity vehicles. The FALCON project: ‘Freight And Logistics in a Multimodal Context’ aims to Read more…

The SRF is delighted to welcome John Woodrooffe from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute as a distinguished academic visitor. John is a Research Scientist Emeritus at the University Read more…