Protected: DHL
Protected: DHL is currently supporting the following projects:
Macro level modelling of road freight scenarios
This project will aim to assemble numerous road freight and logistics data sets into a large integrated database than can be used to construct environmental scenarios for the road freight transport Read more…
A Human Factors Approach to User-Interaction and Decision Support in Logistics Operations
Human Factors is about matching ‘things’ like vehicles, technology, procedures, processes and infrastructures to ‘people’, in order to reduce error and increase efficiency. It is, in effect, a mixture of Read more…
Aerodynamic improvements of conventional and double trailers
This project will explore the potential gains from aerodynamic improvements to trailer design. A particular focus is the exploration of improved underbody profiles to minimise aerodynamic drag utilising a novel Read more…
Minimising Energy Through Optimised Logistics
This project will develop methods for reducing energy consumption of urban freight systems by combined optimization of vehicle technologies and logistical operating principles. Objectives (i) Develop and validate a general-purpose mathematical Read more…
Low Energy B2B Delivery Vehicles
Introduction Large heavy goods vehicles are used in an urban context for various applications including deliveries to city centre supermarkets, department stores and convenience stores as well as refuse collection Read more…
Alternative fuels
This project will identify the most promising opportunities for partial or full fuel substitution in compression ignition engines, with a view to GHG reduction, while complying with the relevant noxious Read more…