Logistics and Supply Chain Research

Edinburgh Business School’s logistics research focuses on developing innovative, practical solutions to optimise global supply chains, enhance resilience, and support industrial decarbonisation.

Our experts collaborate with businesses and policymakers to tackle pressing challenges, from sustainable transport and last-mile delivery to digitalisation and risk management. By integrating cutting-edge research with real-world applications, we drive efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness in logistics and supply chain management.

Achieving research excellence

Our rapidly growing research portfolio incorporates many projects with industry and academia through partner centres.

Heriot-Watt leads TransiT, the UK’s national research hub comprising eight universities and over 70 partners in a programme dedicated to rapidly decarbonising transport using digital twins.

Heriot-Watt is a research partner in DARe the national hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable, and Resilient Transport Infrastructures. Transport Scotland has commissioned Heriot-Watt to work with fleet operators to understand where future zero carbon charging and fuelling infrastructure is most urgently needed.

The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight is a collaboration between Heriot-Watt, Cambridge University and the University of Westminster, with a strong cohort of industrial partners covering technology, operations and policy. We also work closely with the Centre for Sustainable Cooling at the University of Birmingham, with whom we are establishing international Centres of Excellence in Sustainable Cooling and Cold-chain.

Key Projects