How is freight demand likely to change in the future? What impact will reduce transport costs of delivery have?
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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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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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 focuses on developing a National Freight Model to address data limitations and inefficiencies in the UK freight system, which directly relates to understanding future freight demand and the impact of reducing transport costs.
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Decarbonising the UK's Freight Transport
Like energy and automotive before it, UK freight transport is now on the cusp of a socio-technical transition away from fossil fuel dependency. This transition will require major investment to fleet and infrastructure, c...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project, Decarbonising the UK's Freight Transport, focuses on the decarbonization of freight transport and aims to collect and distill current knowledge, identify research challenges, and guide enabling policy. While it may not directly answer the question fully, it provides relevant insights and the authors have the necessary expertise in freight decarbonization.
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Levelling up Freight
**Background** Rail freight is vital to Britain. It contributes almost £2.5bn to the economy and plays a big part in reducing congestion and emissions. Rail is more environmentally friendly than road, with every t...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to make rail freight more accessible and overcome operational challenges, aligning with the goal of reducing transport costs and understanding future freight demand.