Research project

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

Staff

Lead researchers

Prof of Logistics and Transport Mgnment

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'.

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Matt Grote, Thomas Cherrett, Andy Oakey, Antonio Martinez-Sykora & Ismail Aydemir, 2023, Future Transportation, 3(1), 169–188

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Wanqing Zhu, Andy Oakey, Paul Royall, Tim Waters, Thomas Cherrett, Katherine Theobald, Ans-Mari Bester & Robert Lucas, 2023, PLoS ONE, 18(1 January)

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Andy Oakey, Matthew Grote, Angela Smith, Thomas Cherrett, Aliaksei Pilko, Janet Dickinson & Laila Ait Bihi Ouali, 2022, PLoS ONE, 17(12 December)

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Andy Oakey, Aliaksei Pilko, Thomas Cherrett & James Scanlan, 2022, Future Transportation

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Matthew Grote, Aliaksei Pilko, James Scanlan, Thomas Cherrett, Janet Dickinson, Angela Smith, Andy Oakey & Greg Marsden, 2022, Journal of Air Transport Management, 102

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