Northern LEAD
Northern LEAD is a logistics competence centre formed by the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology in co-operation with the Logistics and Transport Society LTS. Northern LEAD researchers have been cooperating with SSPA for a long time and several alumni PhD students are employed at SSPA.
Northern LEAD is based on five core research groups and associated professors from different disciplines. Currently the core research groups consist of 14 professors, and around 70 researchers and PhD students. The centre works as a facilitator and disseminator of high quality logistics research. It supports logistics collaboration and development by connecting academics, companies, authorities and other organisations.
SSPA contributes with expertise
More than 75 years of experience and research in collaboration with universities, research organisations and industry place SSPA at the forefront of maritime research, development and innovation. The logistics researchers are involved in several research projects on the development of innovative logistics solutions and energy efficient vessel concepts for increased use of sea transportation, including inland and urban waterway transportation.
For example, SSPA research and development efforts include projects that demonstrate the use of urban and inland waterways, investigate modal shift from road to sea transport, develop innovative logistics concepts for coastal and inland shipping, investigate the logistical consequences of the conflict in the container port terminal in Göteborg, and use AIS (automatic identification systems).
Northern LEAD researchers have been cooperating with SSPA for a long time, and several of the current projects listed above involve Northern LEAD researchers. Also, several alumni PhD students are employed at SSPA, the most recent being Christian Finnsgård, Vendela Santén, Sara Rogerson and Martin Svanberg.
Read more at www.northernlead.se
Contacts
Ph.D. (Tech. Management and Economics), M.Sc. (Mech. Eng.), M.Sc. (Business Admin.)
The use and usefulness of AIS data
AIS data offers the possibility to understand historical and typical ship behaviour, as well as generate real-time decision-support solutions for mariners and shore-based operators. SSPA has engaged in various research and development projects using AIS data as their basis, and even offers important and novel commercial tools that function via algorithmic analyses of historical and real-time AIS data.
AIS in maritime research, new paper
A new research article is published in the journal Marine Policy. This paper provides an overview of how Automatic Identification System (AIS) can be used in different areas of maritime research. The researchers have identified and presents ten different research areas in which AIS is used today. In the future they propose making use of AIS data also in other research fields. Many stakeholders can benefit from the research in which AIS data is used.
Developing innovative waterway solutions
SSPA are working with projects on the development of innovative logistics solutions and energy efficient vessel concepts for increased use of sea transportation in general and inland waterway transportation in particular. Within this area, SSPA has a large role in two large collaborative Interreg projects, NÖKS II and IWTS - Inland Waterway Transport Solutions.
New study: Logistic consequences of the Gothenburg container port conflict
The conflict in APM Terminals in Port of Gothenburg has led to a large reduction in volumes handled in the port. SSPA and the University of Gothenburg will jointly investigate the consequences of the conflict from a national perspective.