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CALLS FOR PAPERS!
SAIEE Africa Research: Special issue on 'Decarbonisation of road transport in sub-Saharan Africa'. (link)
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I am Head of Sustainability at freight technology and sustainable freight transport provider Zeus Labs in London, and a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Wits University. Prior to joining Zeus, I was a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight at Cambridge University and a Fellow in Engineering at Robinson College (where I remain a Senior Member). I received my PhD from Cambridge University, and am a registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical) with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). I also serve as a Board Member and the Information Officer of the International Forum for Heavy Vehicle Transport & Technology (HVTT Forum). My primary interest is in the decarbonisation of heavy goods vehicles, but I have previously worked in the areas of vehicle dynamics, road safety and computer vision-based odometry and road-user detection systems for HGVs.
Have a look at my publications and bio for more details, or follow one of the links in the sidebar.
Updates
| 2023-09-12 | I presented Zeus' green intermodal case study at a webinar hosted by HFW and Panattoni for the launch of their European Logistics & Supply Chain Sustainability Report 2023 [link to report] |
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| 2023-08-08 | I've been quoted in the RHA's Roadway Magazine's August 2023 issue in an article on electric trucking [link] |
| 2023-08-02 | My CIWM opinion piece on net zero trucking is the featured article in Freight Carbon Zero's weekly newsletter. [link] |
| 2023-07-24 | I've written a short opinion piece on net zero trucking in Circular Online (published by the CIWM). [link] |
| 2023-06-26 | I was quoted alongside alongside PepsiCo and Maersk in an article by Transport & Environment on a call for higher EU truck CO2 standards. Zeus was a signatory to the letter to the EU Commission. [T&E article] [Climate Group article] |
| 2023-06-15 | I chaired a panel discussion on "Roadblocks to sustainable freight - and how to overcome them" at Multimodal 2023 in Birmingham. [watch the session on YouTube] [session info] |
| 2023-06-12 | I've written a short blog post on Scope 3 emissions reporting for logistics. [link] |
| 2023-05-30 | The special issue of the journal Research in Transportation Business & Management on "Decarbonising freight transport: Transitions towards net zero" which I co-guest editted is now available online. Read the editorial here. The full volume can be found here. |
| 2023-05-25 | iI joined a panel discussion with Vertical Future at Innovation Zero. We discussed vertical farming opportunities and how this can benefit sustainable logistics and vice versa. [link] |
| 2023-05-21 | I've been quoted in one of the UK's most circulated newspapers on the UK's formal adoption of Longer Semi-trailers. [link] |
| 2023-04-05 | The Load Star article on Zeus joining GLEC. [link] |
| 2023-04-04 | I was interviewed by former Financial Times journalist Mike Scott for an article on net-zero trucking. The article features in Reuters Insight: Sustainable Business. [link] [pdf] |
| 2023-02-01 | I'm very pleased to share that I will soon be joining digital freight management start-up Zeus® - The Future of Freight! The announcement has featured in a number of media releases: [Business Leader] [Net Zero Professional] [Fleet News] [Multimodal] [Freight Business Journal] [Motor Transport] [Freight Carbon Zero] [Truck.co.uk] [TransportXtra] |
| 2023-01-30 | Presentations and recordings of our Electric Road System papers presented at the 9th International Workshop on Sustainable Road Freight are now available online. [publications] |
| 2023-01-04 | I contributed the 'My Robinson' column for the latest edition of Bin Brook, Robinson College's termly magazine. [pdf] |
| 2022-11-21 | I participated in a round table event with UK and Columbian colleagues as part of the Giro Zero initiative funded by the UK PACT Programme [link] |
| 2022-11-16 | I presented some preliminary work on a UK ERS demonstrator at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference in Lisbon. [link to paper] |
| 2022-02-15 | I have been elected to the Fellowship of Robinson College, Cambridge, starting 1 March 2022 (Fellow in Engineering). |
| 2022-01-31 | I am guest editing a special issue of the SAIEE Africa Research journal on 'Decarbonisation of road transport in sub-Saharan Africa' (link) |
| 2021-11-11 | I presented on our UK electric road system project at the 8th SRF Workshop. The slides are available here. |
| 2021-10-20 | Papers presented at the HVTT16 symposium in Sep 2021 are now available online. My co-authored contributions are also available here. |
| 2021-10-18 | I've written an updated article on cycle commuting. |
| 2021-07-07 | Our paper on high capacity vehicles for the transport of power station coal has been featured in Mining Weekly. |
| 2021-07-06 | Several papers were presented today in the Freight and Logistics session of the Annual Southern African Transport Conference. The papers can be downloaded here. |
| 2021-06-01 | I have moved to the U.K. to take up a new role as Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight at the University of Cambridge. [link] |
| 2020-11-12 | I hosted a panel discussion on the green tyres testing as part of the CSIR@75 Conference. [link to recording] |
| 2020-04-24 | More coverage of the green tyre trials by the CSIR. [video] |
| 2020-03-09 | More coverage of the green tyre trials by Focus on Transport. [article] |
| 2020-01 | More coverage of the green tyre trials by Wits. [article] [Curiosity magazine] |
| 2019-11 | More coverage of the green tyre trials by the Wits School of Mechanical Engineering. [article] |
| 2019-12-20 | Michelin have launched the official marketing video for the collaborative research effort between Wits, CSIR and Michelin to quantify the fuel saving and carbon emission benefits of low-rolling resistance tyres. [article] [video] |
| 2019-11-08 | The final report of the 2015-17 FALCON study has been published by CEDR. An overview of the full project and deliverables can be found here |
| 2019-07-10 | I presented a paper at SATC 2019, and co-authored a few other papers. |
| 2018-10-04 | I have been appointed to the Board of the International Forum for Road Transport Technology (HVTT Forum) |
| 2018-08-01 | I have been appointed a Visiting Lecturer in the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering at Wits University. I will be lecturing Applied Mechanics A (statics) to second year engineering students. |
| 2018-07-09 | I presented a paper at the 37th Southern African Transport Conference in Pretoria, outlining our lightweight GeoTrack simulation tool. |
| 2018-06-12 | I am now a registered Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng.) (Mechanical) in South Africa. |
| 2018-01-29 | I've published an article in Global Trailer Magazine, on the current state of the "Smart Truck" PBS project in South Africa. |
| 2017-08-17 | I passed my PhD viva with minor corrections! |
| 2017-07-14 | My PhD thesis has been submitted! The title is "Vision-based trailer pose estimation for articulated vehicles". |
| 2017-03-21 | I gave a talk on "Visual odometry for trailer off-tracking estimation" at the Vehicle Dynamics and Control Seminar at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. |
| 2016-11-15 | I presented a paper on "Visual odometry for trailer off-tracking estimation" at HVTT14 in Rotorua, New Zealand. |
| 2016-08-23 | David Cebon, John Woodrooffe and I were part of a successful bid for a CEDR-funded project on "Freight And Logistics in a Multimodal Context" (FALCON). This work will be done as part of a consortium of partner organisations from Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, France and Belgium. |
| 2016-05-13 | I gave a talk on "Trailer off-tracking estimation with stereo vision" at the Dynamics and Vibrations Tea-Time Talks in Cambridge. |
| 2016-03-16 | I gave a talk on "Trailer off-tracking estimation with wide-baseline stereo vision" at the Jesus College Graduate Conference at Jesus College, Cambridge. |
| 2015-09-18 | I presented a paper on "A visual template-matching method for articulation angle measurement" at ITSC 2015 in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. |
| 2015-07-06 | I gave a talk on "Camera-based articulation angle sensing for heavy goods vehicles" at the CUED Division C Graduate Conference at TWI, Cambridge. |
| 2015-03-14 | I gave a talk on "Vision-based articulation angle sensing" at the Jesus College Graduate Conference at Jesus College, Cambridge. (2nd prize, Science and Technology) |
| 2015-03-06 | I gave a talk on "Visual sensing and awareness for heavy goods vehicles" at the Dynamics and Vibrations Tea-Time Talks in Cambridge. |
| 2014-10-30 | A co-authored paper on "Vehicle safety performance improvements using a performance-based standards approach: four case studies" was presented at HVTT13 in San Luis, Argentina. (SAICE Best Paper Award, Transportation Engineering) |
| 2014-07-18 | I presented a poster on "Applications of computer vision systems to heavy goods vehicles" at the CUED Division C Graduate Conference at the Cambridge University Engineering Department. |
| 2014-05-23 | I gave a talk on "Visual sensing of articulation angle" at the Dynamics and Vibrations Tea-Time Talks in Cambridge. |
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