Research project

Southampton Delivery and Servicing Plans

Research groups:
Lead researchers:

Professor Tom Cherrett
Other researchers:

Dr Matt Grote
Status:

Not active

Project overview

The aim of the Southampton Delivery and Servicing Plans (DSPs) project was to conduct DSPs on organisations located in and/or around Southampton for Southampton City Council (SCC) via a sub-contract arrangement with the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL).

A DSP is a flexible plan to minimise the costs, impacts and number of deliveries and servicing visits to an organisation, and is developed through an audit of the current situation, analysis of the audit’s results, and the formulation and implementation of a plan-of-action. DSPs are widely seen as an effective method to reduce (inter alia) harmful emissions from delivery and servicing vehicles, and SCC’s desire to improve air quality in Southampton is the background to the project.

The main project page is available here: https://southampton.likn.co/engineering/research/projects/southampton-dsp.page

Staff

Lead researchers

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: [email protected]

Other researchers