Philip Greening

Professor Greening is the Director of two Research Centre’s: The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight and the Centre for Logistics and Sustainability. These two research centres define Professor Greening’s research focus.

The environmental imperative coupled with increased connectivity, and the proliferation of data combine to create the circumstances for radical change. This is necessary if we are to meet the climate change challenge of net zero emissions by 2050.

Transport accounts for approximately one third of all CO2 emissions and is particularly difficult to decarbonize.

Professor Greenings work spans many research approaches (including corporate case studies, roadmap development, and traditional logistics modelling), but his greatest interest is in the development of large-scale high fidelity, self-organising models, more commonly recognized as digital twins, or virtual worlds, which facilitate the exploration of disruptive innovation impact.

Current research has focused on the energy and operational impact of the electrification of logistics, using large scale virtual models of 4 major cities across Europe. These self-organizing models are being used to explore the policy-technology space to develop robust system design. Ultimately it is planned to use the same models to develop resilient systems.

Areas of interest

• Agent based modelling
• self-organization
• sustainability
• logistics
• supply chain
• operational research
• climate change
• environment
• energy