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The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome Professor Michael Bell (ITLS, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia) to lead a seminar entitled Port-centric logistics: An Australian perspective to be held Wednesday 1st April 2015 @ 16:00 Please join us for presentation and discussion at Room 163, Skempton (Civil Eng.) Building, Imperial College London Abstract Ports generate significant truck flows, emissions and wear on the road infrastructure, particularly near the port. The challenge for port cities is not only to minimize the environmental footprint of the port but also to reduce its impact on the adjoining metropolitan area and road network. A number of strategies have received attention, ranging from managing port-bound truck traffic through vehicle booking systems, to displacing some of the truck traffic to inland intermodal terminals connected to the port by rail, to moving the port away from the metropolitan area. One strategy that is receiving increasing attention is the co-location of logistics facilities (warehouses, distribution centres, and some assembly or manufacturing activity) with the port or intermodal terminals. This promotes the rapid reuse of containers, helps container "triangulation", reduces the need for empty container parks, and keeps containers off the road network. It also offers ports additional revenue-earning and employment-generating opportunities. This presentation analyses the case for port-centric logistics, taking London and Sydney as case studies. About the Speakers Michael Bell is the Foundation Professor of Ports and Maritime Logistics in the Institute of Transport and Logistics, at the University of Sydney Business School. Prior to this, he was the Professor of Transport Operations at Imperial College London and the Founding Director of the Port Operations Research and Technology Centre (PORTeC). His research and teaching interests span ports, maritime logistics, transport network modelling, traffic engineering, and intelligent transport systems. He is the author of many papers, a number of books (including Transportation Network Analysis, 1997), was for 17 years an Associate Editor of Transportation Research B, the leading transport theory journal, and is currently an Associate Editor of Transportmetrica A and Maritime Policy & Management. About the CTS Seminar Series The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. They are usually held on Wednesday afternoons at Imperial College London or University College London. Seminars are free of charge and open to all interested parties. Please register for this event using the following link<http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/port-centric-logistics-an-australian-perspective-tickets-16098926322>. For further information: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> CTS home: www.imperial.ac.uk/cts<http://www.imperial.ac.uk/cts> (Imperial College London) www.cege.ucl.ac.uk/cts<http://www.cege.ucl.ac.uk/cts> (University College London)