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Research project

Reducing logistics related energy demand through shared human and autonomous interventions over the last mile

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Tom Cherrett

Prof of Logistics and Transport Mgnment

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

Other researchers

Professor James Scanlan

Professor of Design
Connect with James

Email: J.P.Scanlan@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Public acceptance of the use of drones for logistics: the state of play and moving towards more informed debate
Angela Smith, Janet Dickinson, Greg Marsden, Thomas Cherrett, Andy Oakey & Matthew Grote, 2022, Technology in Society, 68
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101883
Type: article
Enabling safe and sustainable medical deliveries by connected autonomous freight vehicles operating within dangerous goods regulations
Andy Oakey, Matt Grote, Paul G. Royall & Tom Cherrett, 2022, Sustainability, 14(2)
DOI: 10.3390/su14020930
Type: review
Spatiotemporal ground risk mapping for uncrewed aerial systems operations
Aliaksei Pilko, Andras Sobester, James Scanlan & Mario Ferraro, 2021
DOI: 10.2514/6.2022-1915
Type: conference
How do dangerous goods regulations apply to uncrewed aerial vehicles transporting medical cargos?
Matthew Grote, Thomas Cherrett, Andy Oakey, Paul Royall, Simon Whalley & Janet Dickinson, 2021, Drones, 5(2)
DOI: 10.3390/drones5020038
Type: review
Quantifying the effects of vibration on medicines in transit caused by fixed-wing and multi-copter drones
Andrew Oakey, Tim Waters, Wanqing Zhu, Paul G. Royall, Tom Cherrett, Patrick Courtney, Dennis Majoe & Nickolay Jelev, 2021, Drones, 5(1)
DOI: 10.3390/drones5010022
Type: article