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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'.
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Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor James Scanlan

Professor of Design
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Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Benefits of shared-fleet horizontal logistics collaborations
Matt Grote, Thomas Cherrett, Andy Oakey, Antonio Martinez-Sykora & Ismail Aydemir, 2023, Future Transportation, 3(1), 169–188
DOI: 10.3390/futuretransp3010011
Type: article
Investigating the influence of drone flight on the stability of cancer medicines
Wanqing Zhu, Andy Oakey, Paul Royall, Tim Waters, Thomas Cherrett, Katherine Theobald, Ans-Mari Bester & Robert Lucas, 2023, PLoS ONE, 18(1 January)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278873
Type: article
Integrating drones into NHS patient diagnostic logistics systems: flight or fantasy?
Andy Oakey, Matthew Grote, Angela Smith, Thomas Cherrett, Aliaksei Pilko, Janet Dickinson & Laila Ait Bihi Ouali, 2022, PLoS ONE, 17(12 December)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264669
Type: article
Are drones safer than vans?: a comparison of routing risk in logistics
Andy Oakey, Aliaksei Pilko, Thomas Cherrett & James Scanlan, 2022, Future Transportation
DOI: 10.3390/futuretransp2040051
Type: article
Sharing airspace with Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): Views of the General Aviation (GA) community
Matthew Grote, Aliaksei Pilko, James Scanlan, Thomas Cherrett, Janet Dickinson, Angela Smith, Andy Oakey & Greg Marsden, 2022, Journal of Air Transport Management, 102
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2022.102218
Type: article