Collaborative and AdaPtive Integrated Transport Across Land and Sea

Project Description

CAPITALS aims to minimise disruption in freight movement across land/sea transport by enabling more adaptive and synchronised " data connectivity between" land/sea "transport modes", to enhance resilience to disruptions, in order to allow "goods movers" to exploit "current capacity" to move "freight more swiftly" through ports thus achieving greater throughput . Through "fusion and analytics" of distributed "multi-modal data assets", real-time, static and historic data, the CAPITALS data environment will provide understanding of the status of "individual modes" (maritime, road and rail) and the "overall transport network" across end-to-end land/sea transport. The CAPITALS project is expected to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits inside and outside the consortium. Within the consortium, CAPITALS will deliver partners' reduced cost & carbon footprint of transport operations, demonstration of societal benefits of their innovations, partners' creation of jobs and new products to grow UK economy. CAPITALS will also deliver economic benefits through cost reduction and time savings achieved with the efficient collaboration of freight logistics and the reduction in congestion. These financial benefits are associated with decreased missed berthing slots, avoided delay penalties and fuel savings. Outside CAPITALS, in Humber and Merseyside areas, of rapidly growing ports and congested hinterland, applicable nationally, CAPITALS will deliver significant macro-level socioeconomic benefits by reducing the logistics sector's contribution to congestion and mitigating the impact of congestion on the end-to-end logistics. Costs of commercial operations associated with congestion & wider knock-on costs will be substantially reduced. In fact, 15% reduction in logistics costs can add £7.5bn pa to UK GDP (ITC, 2014). Utilisation of existing infrastructure (including roads, ports, shipping lanes, rail) and vehicles (greater loading and reduced empty TS/P001270/1 Page 2 of 10 Date Saved: 20/01/2016 13:49:30 Date Printed: 20/01/2016 13:55:16 Proposal original proforma document Impact Summary Impact Summary (please refer to the help for guidance on what to consider when completing this section) [up to 4000 chars] running) will be increased and journey times reduced, while efficiency and resilience of the existing regional transport infrastructure critical to both regional and national economies and their growth. CAPITALS services hence will also reduce environmental impact, including GHG emissions and local air pollution. Better air quality reduces the risk of cardio-vascular diseases, which is not only considered a social benefit but also an economic one once the cost associated with hospital admissions in the short term and subsequent medical care are taken into account in the longer term. Indeed, DEFRA estimates that the UK cost associated with air pollution caused by the transport sector lie between £4.5 billion and £10.6 billion at 2009 prices (Defra, 2010). The University of Hull will be lead partner in developing the system customer requirements for the overall CAPITALS system (WP1, working with the other partners in the consortium). This will involve focus groups, interviews and discussions with all the stakeholders of the project including Local Authorities, the port community and other shippers and transport operators. The University of Hull will work closely with the Transport Systems Catapult to develop the model visualiser. UoH will also lead the real-world trials in the Humber region, in conjunction with HumberPort. The University of Hull, working with the Transport Systems Catapult, will also be involved in the development of the virtual transport laboratory trials of the overall CAPITALS system leading to successful commercialisation of the service by the end of the project period.