Projects
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| Reference Number | TE251 | |
| Title | Make backloading work for you | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial) 15%; Energy Efficiency(Transport) 15%; Not Energy Related 70%; |
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| Research Types | Applied Research and Development 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | SOCIAL SCIENCES (Economics and Econometrics) 25%; SOCIAL SCIENCES (Business and Management Studies) 75%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 75%; Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Environmental dimensions) 5%; Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour) 5%; Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Technology acceptance) 5%; Other (Energy technology information dissemination) 10%; |
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Project Contact No email address given AEA Technology Environment |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | DfT | |
| Start Date | 01 September 2004 | |
| End Date | 01 August 2005 | |
| Duration | 11 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £15,000 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Transport | |
| Region | South East | |
| Programme | DfT Freight logistics | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Project Contact , AEA Technology Environment (100.000%) |
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| Objectives | The aim of this guide is to: - introduce back-loading and how it works - highlight the potential benefits of back-loading to your business -outline ways of obtaining back-loads | |
| Abstract | Fuel represents a significant proportion of total vehicle operating costs (at around 30%) and therefore even small percentage reductions in fuel use can produce large savings. There are two main ways of cutting fuel costs: by reducing fuel consumption (getting more miles to the gallon) and maximising vehicle use (doing fewer miles to do the same job). Making the best use of a vehicle has the potential to reduce your costs much more significantly than by reducing fuel consumptionalone. Increasing miles per gallon will save a percentage of the fuel cost of all journeys, but reducing the mileage that is done to carry out a job will save 100% of the fuel and operating costs for those avoided miles. Making best use of the available load space in every vehicle trip can help to reduce the mileage covered per job. It can be achieved through a variety of means including back-loading, consolidating loads, load stacking, and the use of multipledecked vehicles.This guide covers back-loading best practice, and outlines how you can save money by making the best use of your resources: fuel, vehicles and drivers. It provides practical advice to help integrate and increase back-loading within your business in order to improve profitability and operational efficiency, and reduce empty or light running. What is back-loading? Back-loading is the practice of making use of spare capacity on the return leg of a delivery journey. It makes more efficient use of valuable resources such as fuel and driver time by finding loads that need to be shipped between similar areas as those visited by the returning vehicle. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 07/02/08 | |
