What approach should central Government take to best manage and organise road freight / logistics in the UK to make it more efficient, resilient and reduce its environmental impact and what would be its likely impact on costs and competition in the supply chain?
Background
The grow and level up the economy strategic priority is at the heart of the government’s agenda to spread opportunity across the UK. Transport has a crucial role to play, whether it be through improving connectivity across the United Kingdom and growing the economy by enhancing the transport network, on time and on budget. DfT has a number of specific interests in this space, notably our infrastructure projects, Places for Growth and our apprenticeships and skills work.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Centre for Sustainable Road Freight 2018-2023
This programme brings together teams from Herriot Watt University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Westminster and Durham University: providing a multidisciplinary focus on the research needed to enable an...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
This project focuses on research needed to enable and underpin radical measures to decarbonise the UK's road freight transport sector, which directly addresses the question of reducing the environmental impact of road freight logistics.
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Reducing road freight empty running (REFER)
This project will develop an innovative system for significantly reducing the levels of empty and part-filled running, ie backloading, of freight road vehicles. This will lead to reduced freight operating costs, fuel usa...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
This project aims to reduce the levels of empty and part-filled running of freight road vehicles, which partially addresses the question of making road freight logistics more efficient and reducing its environmental impact.
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National Freight Model (Phase 2)
The UK Freight system is extensive comprising around 195,000 enterprises, 2.5 million employees, and contributing £121 billion gross value added (GVA) to the economy. In most places, LGVs and HGVs contribute ~30% o...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the inefficiencies in the UK freight system, provides data solutions, and offers a model for managing and organizing road freight to reduce environmental impact.