Funded by: UKRI through Innovate UK
This is A two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project between Kent Business School and Dover Harbour Board (Port of Dover) funded by UKRI through Innovate UK.
This project sets out to optimise traffic flows and infrastructure investment at the port in response to evolving post-Brexit regulatory requirements and the implementation a new digital border.
The project is valued at £190,929 and will be led by Kent’s Professor Jesse O’Hanley and Professor Kathy Kotiadis, with Professor Maria Paola Scaparra providing additional support.
KTPs aim to help businesses improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills within the UK academic sector.
The project expects to support the Port of Dover to realise their ambitious operational vision to enhance port operations and make continual improvements to the UK’s leading trade artery with the EU.
The project aims to bring real value by applying and embedding advanced modelling techniques, which will help grow the business and guide new investment in border and check-in infrastructure and digitalisation. The project will have real-world impacts on enhanced trade, reduced traffic congestion, and local air quality improvements.
The KTP will utilise simulation modelling to bring to life port-system traffic management through the use of real-time data and highlight where investment should be targeted, both tactically and strategically, to overcome regulatory, digitalisation and decarbonisation challenges. Importantly, this will not solely focus on flows inside the Port, but stakeholders across the entire system will be worked with proactively.