TSB announces £8m funding for innovative solutions to transport and logistics challenges

Fri 02 April 2010 View all news

The Government-backed Technology Strategy Board is investing £8m in projects designed to devise solutions to some of the UK's biggest transport and logistics challenges, including the need to ease congestion and reduce carbon emissions. The 12 collaborative research and development projects aim to develop innovative and sustainable systems and services that will help move goods around the country more effectively.

The 'Informed Logistics' competition is co-funded by the Department for Transport, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Highways Agency.

The long term aim of this activity is to support the UK logistics industry and help it to evolve by offering the opportunity to take part in collaborative research and development that helps to address some of the unsustainable practices that currently exist within the sector. There is a focus on devising solutions that improve efficiency and competitiveness, while reducing the environmental impact of road congestion. One of the ways in which this could be achieved is by coming up with new technology solutions that influence the choices that are made on a daily basis about the way that goods are moved around the country.

To gain funding, the projects were encouraged to demonstrate that the system or service that they develop will affect the entire supply chain or logistics activity across the whole transport network. They were encouraged to 'think big' and told to identify solutions that will influence the way people make decisions about moving goods, increase the competiveness of the UK logistics industry and reduce the congestion and environmental impact of goods movement.

Examples of some of the suggested projects are accessible through the associated links.

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