FUTURE FREIGHT:MANAGING CONGESTION

) Future of Freight: Managing Congestion (Budget capped at £80,000.00 excluding VAT)

1. The relative effectiveness of different interventions for managing the impacts of congestion on the freight system, (including but not restricted to smart motorways, lorry platooning, digital railway signalling, and longer heavier vehicles) to manage congestion on the UK road and rail networks
1. The barriers to introducing or the scaling of existing and emerging technologies that seek to manage the impacts of congestion on freight or maximise the existing transport network capacity;
1. An understanding of the potential for modal shift of freight from road to rail or waterborne forms of transport, as well as the potential benefits impacts of moving freight off rail;
1. The characteristics of congested areas and desktop review of pinch points to understand the underlying causes of congestion;
1. The role that better data gathering, sharing and interrogation/use could deliver in reducing the impact of congestion on freight, and broader decision making on infrastructure investment; and
1. Identify relevant domestic and international case studies for how the impacts of congestion have been successfully managed in relation to the freight industry

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Framework RM6018 Research Market Place (see below Links)

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Once Registered please email CS.procurement@crowncommercial.gov.uk and freightstudy@nic.gsi.gov.uk requesting a copy of the Invitation to tender (ITT) suite of documents

Additional information: How to apply Instructions to Potential Providers:

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