Road Transport Directive - Coursework Example

The question being raised is, what survival skills will enable logistics companies to cope in this new scenario, and to assess how many companies have actually become compliant in this regard.

• Hypothesis

RTD enforcement will lead to denser networks of Distribution Hubs in the UK. RTD enforcement has come as a boon to property consultants. As stricter regulations means, companies want to spare time on the transport of goods. This calls for the relocalization of existing warehouses, and gradual expansion into large-scale Distribution centers (DC’s).

• Aims and Objectives

The main aim of this research proposal is, to look into several interconnected factors that support our hypothesis; we investigate the pattern of warehouse development in the UK in recent years and try to isolate any tendency for locational hotspots. Our assumption lies in the volatile Midlands region. After identification, we study the impact of a host of parameters like location, labor, and advances in warehouse design to validate the hypothesis.

• Parameters of Study

• A background analysis of distribution shed sector, and its contribution to the National economy, within the purview of supply chain study.
• Conceptual framework design, e.g. Centre of Gravity, and isochrones.
• Full-range impact study on a host of subtle parameters
  • Limitations of Study
• We had to restrict the scope and feasibility of our study on the conceptual model to theoretical description only, also the results that followed from UK’s distribution using isochronous models, as data access is difficult.
• Complete data set on current companies that have implemented RTD measures in their logistics operations is vaguely defined.
• Shed and Warehouse design presented in this paper contains only suggestions instead of actual design using relevant parameters.

1.6 Secondary Research

This paper relies on extensive literature in the process of validating the central hypothesis:

• Newspaper and Business articles including sources like Sheffield Telegraph, Business Review for RTD regulations.
• Articles from property consultant sources like Burton Knowles.
• Actual case studies from property consulting firms, such as NAI Fuller Peiser, GVA Lamb, and Edge, and others.
• Cardiff Business School case study on conceptual model analysis
• Recommendations from Christian Salvesen’s article on this subject.