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…
We recently performed a study of heavy vehicle operations within Cambridge. (See the publication here.) 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…
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…