时 间：2017年5月26日（周五）上午10:00
地 点：浙江大学紫金港校区行政楼302会议室
主讲人：Prof.David Cebon，英国皇家工程院院士/剑桥大学教授
主持人：寿涌毅教授，浙江大学管理学院
题 目：Towards Sustainable Road Freight.
Abstract:Everything that you buy in a shop or online has been transported by road at some stage in its life – both as a finished product and at various stages of its creation.The package that it came in was transported by road, the label on the package was transported by road, the ink on the label on the package was transported by road, the machine that printed the ink on the label on the package was transported by road, as were all the printing machine’s components, the raw materials they were made from, etc.If road freight stopped tomorrow, our urban society would cope for 4 or 5 days before mayhem broke out. … Like running fresh water and electricity, road freight is something that we simply can’t manage without.Road freight currently generates about 7-8% of the UK’s CO2 emissions.The amount of freight being transported by road is growing rapidly – to serve increasing consumer demands for goods.This talk will discuss the ways in which the road freight system can be made more sustainable – by improving the engineering systems that move the freight and the logistics systems that organize the movement of freight.
Bio：David Cebon is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.He is Director of the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium and the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight.He leads Cambridge University Engineering Department’s Transport Research Group and the Department's research theme 'Energy, Transport and Urban Infrastructure'.Professor Cebon’s research covers the mechanical, civil, and materials aspects of road transport engineering.He has authored and co-authored numerous papers on dynamic loads of heavy vehicles, road and bridge response and damage, traffic information, advanced suspension design for heavy vehicles, heavy vehicle safety and mobility, heavy vehicle fuel consumption and the micromechanics of asphalt deformation and fracture.He has a Ph.D. in engineering from Cambridge University and a bachelor’s degree from Melbourne University.
