The Future of Freight Transportation

The future of transportation is seamless mobility, where all modes and (semi-) autonomous vehicles are fully connected into a single network.

This workshop, being held at Cardiff Business School on Thursday 3rd October will build on the CILT-funded project which investigated the truck platooning technology for the UK. The workshop will discuss the results of the truck platooning research. Additionally, this workshop will cover other emerging issues in freight transportation, such as big data, autonomous vehicles, vehicle routing optimisation.

Programme

09.30 - 10.00 Registration, Welcome and Introduction
Tea and coffee

10.00 - 10.30  Truck Platooning: The Future?
Dr Emrah Demir, Cardiff Business School

10.30 - 11.15  Developments and trends in automated goods movements
Richard Saady, Senior Manager, Vehicle and Systems Product Leadership, RICARDO

11.15 - 12.00  Zero to Data Science: Transport & Logistics
Dr Mohammad Mesgarpour, Head of Data Science and Research, MICROLISE

12.00 - 13.00 LUNCH

13.00 - 13.45  Big data in Transportation
Professor Tom Van Woensel, Professor of Freight Transport and Logistics, Eindhoven University of Technology

13.45 - 14.30  Is the vehicle routing problem dead?
Dr Maria Battara, Gaps and future research directions, Associate Professor of Management Science, School of Management, Bath University

14.30 - 15.00 Discussion

15.00 Workshop ends

Registration for this event is free. Register via eventsforce.