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REGISTRATION

Please register now to attend the event in-person or online by clicking here.

For those attending in-person: As part of the registration process your personal details, including passport information, will be requested. This will enable an Invitation Letter to be produced and sent out to you by email, to support your visa application.

Workshop Agenda – download the workshop agenda here

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We are delighted to announce that the 2024 workshop will be hosted by Distinguished Professor Hong Chen, Director of the Institute of Intelligent Vehicle Research, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

All speakers are expected to attend in person, but the proceedings will be live streamed for those who cannot travel to Shanghai.

There is a widespread consensus on the urgency of global transition to net zero future. However, despite decades of intense research efforts, there is still uncertainty around the pathways that supply chains and logistics systems will have to follow in order to meet various interim targets and drastically reduce GHG emissions by 2050. In addition, the global environment has become increasingly turbulent posing a significant challenge to the resilience of supply chains and the decarbonisation process.

This year’s workshop will discuss the breakthroughs needed in logistics strategy, technology and practice to achieve the carbon neutralization goals set for the sector in the medium and long terms.

Keynote Speakers

TBC

David Cebon Professor, Cambridge University, UKFellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, UKDirector of SRF, UK	Mats Harborn President of Scania China Group President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (2017~2019)
Jianghua Feng (TBD) Chief Engineer and Chief Scientist of CRRC Vice Dean of the School of Rail Transit at Hunan University of Technology	Xinghua Li Dean of the China Institute of Transportation at Tongji University Dean of the Planning and Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport of China (2009-2016)
Boyong Wang Director, SFC China Green freight, sustainable transport specialist and eGovernment expert	Alan McKinnon Professor of Logistics, Kuehne Logistics University, Hamburg Professor Emeritus, Heriot-Watt University, UKCo-founder of SRF, UK

Call for Papers

We invite presentations on ways to achieve carbon neutralization of the logistics and road freight transport sector, with a particular focus on:
• Improving sustainability, resilience and robustness of supply chains through carbon neutralization of logistics and road freight transport
• Case studies on the carbon neutralization of logistics and road freight transport
• Knowledge management and organisational learning related to carbon neutralization of logistics
• Global, national and organisational perspectives on the transition to net zero logistics
• Ways to accelerate the transition to net zero freight systems: through technology, logistics and policy
• Resilient and flexible technologies to facilitate the transition to net zero logistics
• ‘No-regrets’ or technology-agnostic measures and investments that can be implemented now to support the longer-term carbon neutralization of logistics
• Organisational change and readiness for near zero logistics solutions
• Local socio-economic, regulatory and political factors shaping the speed and magnitude of the transition process

Submission of Abstracts

Participants are invited to submit abstracts presenting research investigating the sustainability of the freight transport sector. Abstracts focusing on the workshop themes described above are particularly welcome. Abstracts should focus on recently completed research, or research in progress.

Abstracts of max 1000 words should be submitted by 3rd June 2023. Notifications of acceptance for presentations will be sent out by 17th June 2023. Please submit your abstract by sending it to Virginia Bath (vl270@cam.ac.uk). Please note that all presenters are expected to attend the event in person.

International Scientific Committee

Daniel Ainalis NTRO – Australia	Alan Mckinnon Kuhne Logistics University – Germany	Shankar Subramanian Indian Institute of Technology Madras – India
David Cebon Cambridge University – United Kingdom	Xiaoxiang Na Cambridge University – United Kingdom	Ed Sweeney Heriot Watt University – United Kingdom
Hong Chen Tongi University – China	Maja Piecyk University of Westminster – United Kingdom	Lori Tavasszy TU Delft – Netherlands
Chris de Saxe GoMetro – United Kingdom	Debjit Roy Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad – India	Joubert Van Eeden Stellenbosch University – South Africa
Phil Greening Heriot-Watt University – United Kingdom	Yongyi Shou Zhejiang University – China	Julio Villalobos Universidad Andres Bello – Chile
Jan Havenga Stellenbosch University – South Africa	Srikanthan Sridharan Indian Institute of Technology Madras – India	Gordon Wilmsmeier Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Contact

If you have any questions or would like any further information, please email vl270@cam.ac.uk