This theme will investigate opportunities to optimise the efficiency of urban delivery vehicles, their management and the city logistics systems within which they operate.
This theme will explore routes to major reductions in fuel consumption for urban freight transportation by optimizing the combination of vehicle technology and logistical arrangements. It will focus on three important fuel-consuming activities in urban freight transport:
(i) deliveries to shops in urban areas (Business-to-business – ‘B2B’);
(ii) home delivery of online orders to consumers (Business-to-consumer ‘B2C’);
(iii) domestic and commercial refuse collection. There is significant potential for reducing fuel consumption in all of these three activities. Other types of freight transport in cities – e.g. construction vehicles, fuel delivery, manufacturing supply chain, etc, are likely to be considered specifically in future projects.
Introduction This project will take an experimental and theoretical approach to understanding a driver’s speed choice and accelerator/brake control strategy, particularly in urban freight situations where the vehicle spends little Read more…
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…
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…
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…