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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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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
Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge
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.
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
Lead research organisation: De Montfort University
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.
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
Lead research organisation: CITY SCIENCE CORPORATION LIMITED
This project focuses on developing a National Freight Model to provide adequate data for analyzing and planning freight solutions, but it does not directly address the question of managing and organizing road freight logistics in the UK.