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Research project

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'.
Connect with Tom

Email: T.J.Cherrett@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Understanding the impact of e-commerce on last-mile light goods vehicle activity in urban areas: the case of London
J. Allen, Maja Piecyk, Marzena Piotrowska, Fraser Mcleod, Thomas Cherrett, Thuba Nguyen, Tolga Bektas, Oliver Bates, Adrian Friday, S Wise & M Austwick, 2018, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2017.07.020
Type: article
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
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