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Freight Traffic Control 2050: transforming the energy demands of last-mile urban freight through collaborative logistics

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Tom Cherrett

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Understanding and improving the distribution of goods and the management of freight vehicles in urban areas, including the supply of goods to hospitals and the use of consolidation centres; 
  • How optimisation techniques can be used to improve system efficiency and in what ways Intelligent Transport Systems (smart tagging of assets and the use of smartphones) can improve operating efficiency; 
  • Approaches to more effectively collect and manage the movement of waste in terms of both household domestic waste collection strategies, Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) management and joint domestic/commercial waste collection strategies. He has worked on a number of research projects in these specific areas: (Department for Transport grant PPAD 9/142/034, ‘Optimising vehicles undertaking waste collections' GR/S79626/01, SUE project 55 ‘Transport and Logistics'; EP/D043328/1, ‘Green Logistics'.

Research outputs

Transforming last-mile logistics
Oliver Bates,
Adrian Friday,
Julian Allen,
Tom Cherrett,
Fraser McLeod,
Tolga Bektas,
Thuba Nguyen,
Maja Piecyk,
Marzena Piotrowska,
Sarah Wise,
& Nigel Davies
, 2018
DOI: 10.1145/3173574.3174100
Type: conference
Using an agent-based model to explore alternative modes of last-mile parcel delivery in urban contexts
Sarah Wise,
Kostas Cheliotis,
Oliver Bates,
Adrian Friday,
Julian Allen,
Fraser McLeod,
& Tom Cherrett
, 2018
DOI: 10.1145/3284038.3284039
Type: conference
Enabling the freight traffic controller for collaborative multi-drop urban logistics
Julian Allen,
Tolga Bektas,
Thomas Cherrett,
Adrian Friday,
Fraser Mcleod,
Maja Piecyk,
Marzena Piotrowska,
& Martin Zaltz Austwick
, 2017 , Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
DOI: 10.3141/2609-09
Type: article