Cold-Chain Design Model For Developing Markets
Central to our work, the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (CSRF) at Heriot-Watt University has built a first-of-a-kind virtual model which can be populated with a country's data to understand and develop optimised end-to-end multimodal integrated cold-chain to meet a Government's mission-driven social and economic targets; mitigate associated GHG emissions, as well as consider how to build resilience against future shocks and disturbances.
With the model, we can help governments - and development agencies - develop holistic, robust and resilient, sequenced and budgeted evidence-driven cold-chain delivery roadmaps and continuously test strategies or external impact (positive or negative). This is impossible in the real world without building the physical assets.
Using the model, we can:
- understand at a national level the optimised cold-chain to meet a Government's mission-driven social and economic targets i.e what asset are required and where they should be located;
- prioritise facilities (and where is the best place to start building out a cold-chain system;
- test the impact of policies or other external decisions (new export points) on the supply chain - do they create overcapacity in one part of the chain but have a dampening effect on a different region;
- consider how to transition to renewables and non-diesel transport;
- consider modal or infrastructure shifts;
- consider how to build resilience against future shocks and disturbances e.g. impact of localised flooding to loss of roads or change in production due to climate change; geopolitical impacts, etc.
Equally if we know the optimum mix of assets, we can also understand the capital investment requirements as well as human resource and skill requirements including number of trained engineers, etc - and indeed where to locate training hubs.
Join us online on Tuesday 15th October at 14.00 - 15.30 CET (13.00 - 14.30 BST) to learn what the model can do, why this is valuable and next steps, including how to engage or deploy in market.
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