Newcastle University

Introduction

Tom is a hybrid academic and manager. He has over 2 decades experience in supply chain management, primarily logistics, procurement and distribution. That entire career has had parallel streams of line management, strategic review and change management. Tom is comfortable in multi-site, multi-national organisations with inter-disciplinary teams. He has worked in heavy and medium engineering and been involved in analysing and implementing solutions in road, rail and sea freight.

Qualifications

1997-98 Cranfield University
MSc in Distribution and Logistics.

1983-1986 University of Sheffield
BA Honours in Economic and Social History. Class: Upper Second 2:1

Memberships

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply

Research Interests

urban freight and city logistics
intermodal freight
transport policy
supply chain management
fleet management
rail freight
ICT in transport logistics

Other Expertise

On an IS/IT level Tom has been involved in the specification, design, project management and implementation of various enterprise and supply chain systems. Tom is used to working at Board level and influencing decisions. Tom is a fully qualified procurement professional.

Current Work

Research Roles

Postgraduate Supervision

Esteem Indicators

Chair of the “Rail Freight Without Borders” Conference, Budapest 2012.

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, 2011.

Member of the European Railway Research Advisory Council.

Invited member of the Tyne and Wear Freight on Rail group, 2011-present.

Invited member of the Tyne and Wear Freight Quality Partnership, 2010-present.

Chair of the FREIGHTWISE International Conference; London, UK, April 2010

Invited Speaker and Chair at the 2nd European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics; Venice, IT, October 2009

Chair of FREIGHTWISE International Conference; Prague, CZ, December 2008

Invited Chair at the BESTUFS International Conference, Athens, Greece, June 2008

Invited to write leading opinion piece in Rail Freight Handbook 2008

Chair of FREIGHTWISE International Conference; Newcastle, UK, December 2007

Presented paper on “Methodology for City Freight Solutions” at ‘eDrul/MEROPE/CITYPORTS’ conference Florence November 2004.

Articles published on Road Pricing in the CILT UK magazine FOCUS, October and November 2004

Article published in the ‘Freight Industry Yearbook 2004/2005’

Presented paper “Road pricing and effect on urban freight” at ‘The Sustainable City 2004’; Siena, Italy 18-19th June 2004.

Invited speaker at the Polish Logistics Congress; Poznan, Poland, 19-21st May 2004.

Invited speaker at ‘Integrated Intelligent Transport Solutions’; London, UK, March 2004

Keynote speaker on “Urban Freight in the European Union” at the Freight and Logistics Symposium; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 5th December 2004

Chair of the BESTUFS Conference on Urban Freight Logistics and the Environment; Copenhagen, May 2003

Chair of the BESTUFS Conference on Urban Freight and International Best Practice; Paris, June 2002

Funding

SMARTFUSION, smart urban freight, European Commission, 2012 to 2015

SPECTRUM, innovative rail freight, European Commission, 2012 to 2015

eFreight, ICT and Transport Logistics, European Commission, 2010 to 2012

SUPERGREEN, Green Corridors and Co-modality, European Commission, Jan 2010 to Dec 2013

BE LOGIC, logistics benchmarking and standards, European Commission, 01 Sept 2008 to 28 Feb 2011

KOMODA, eLogistics research, European Commission, 01 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2009

RETRACK, railfreight logistics research, European Commission, 01 May 2007 to 30 April 2011

FREIGHTWISE, systems and intermodality, European Commission, 01 November 2005 to 30 April 2009

BESTUFS 2, urban logistics research, European Commission, 01 September 2004 to 31 August 2008

Projects

• BESTFACT
  Project Leader(s): Mr TH Zunder
• e-Freight
  Project Leader(s): Mr TH Zunder
  The e-Freight Integrated Project (European eFreight capabilities for Co-modal transport) brings together 30 partners from 14 Member States and Norway for a programme of work that will cover four years, addressing the development, validation...
• RETRACK
  Project Leader(s): Mr TH Zunder
  The EC has entered into a contract for the RETRACK consortium to research, develop and implement a rail freight corridor from Rotterdam to Constanza.  In the RETRACK Consortium, new and upcoming European rail freight operators...
• SPECTRUM
  Project Leader(s): Mr TH Zunder
  Modern manufacturing techniques and logistics require reliable, time sensitive delivery of lower density and higher value goods. This presents a market opportunity for rail freight to grow, partly due to increasing congestion on roads...
• SuperGreen
  Project Leader(s): Mr TH Zunder
  The purpose of SUPERGREEN is to promote the development of European freight Logistics in an environmentally friendly manner. Environmental factors play an increasing role in all transport modes, and holistic approaches are needed...

Postgraduate Teaching

PhD Student Supervision 2007-present

NUBS Logistics MSc teaching 2010-present

• Marinov M, Fraszczyk A, Zunder T, Rizzetto L, Ricci S, Todorova M, Dzhaleva A, Karagyozov K, Trendafilov Z, Schlingensiepen J. A supply-demand study of practice in rail logistics higher education. Journal of Transport Literature 2013, 7(2), 338-351.
• Woroniuk C, Marinov M, Zunder T. Developments for Private Sector Rail Freight Services along an EU Corridor. Transport Problems 2013. In Press.
• Zunder TH, Jackson R, Islam DMZ. European rail freight: is it up to the job?. Logistics & Transport Focus 2013, 15(3), 64-67.
• Zunder TH, Islam DMZ, Mortimer PN, Aditjandra PT. How far has open access enabled the growth of cross border pan European rail freight? A case study. Research in Transportation Business and Management 2013, 6, 71-80.
• Islam DMZ, Zunder TH. Issues of eLogistics applications for varying stakeholders: findings from an online survey. European Transport Research Review 2013, 5(epub ahead of print).
• Islam DMZ, Meier FM, Aditjandra PT, Zunder TH, Pace G. Logistics and supply chain management. Research in Transport Economics 2013, 41(1), 3-16.
• Islam DMZ, Zunder TH, Jorna RAM. Performance evaluation of an online benchmarking tool for European freight transport chains. Benchmarking: an International Journal 2013, 20(2), 233-250.
• Woroniuk C, Marinov M, Zunder T, Mortimer P. Time Series Analysis of Rail Freight Services by the Private Sector in Europe. Transport Policy 2013, 25, 81-93.
• Marinov M, Zunder T, Arnoldus R, Moolen C. A Standardised Language Code for Rail Freight Operations. Transport Problems 2012, 7(2), 141-148.
• Woroniuk C, Marinov M, Zunder T. Analysis of the impact of Information Communication Technology implementation on Rail Freight Operations. In: 17th Annual Logistics Research Network Conference. 2012, Cranfield University.
• Zunder TH, Aditjandra PT, Islam DMZ. Europe's Freight Transport Policy: White Paper 2001 to White Paper 2011. In: 91st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. 2012, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board.
• Aditjandra PT, Zunder TH, Islam DMZ, Vanaale E. Investigating Freight Corridors Towards Low Carbon Economy: Evidence from the UK. Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences 2012, 48, 1865-1876.
• Zunder TH, Westerheim H, Jorna R, Pedersen JT. Is it Possible to Manage and Plan Co-Modal Freight Transport Without a Centralised System?. International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) 2012, 3(2), 15.
• Zunder TH, Islam DMZ, Mortimer P. Pan-European Rail Freight Transport; Evidence from a Pilot Demonstration Result. Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences 2012, 48, 1346-1355.
• Zunder TH, Islam DMZ, Mortimer P. Pan-European Rail Freight Transport; Evidence from a Pilot Demonstration Result. In: Transport Research Arena Europe. 2012, Athens, Greece.
• Marinov M, Zunder T, Mortimer P. Rail Freight Services, Policy and Practice. World Transport Policy & Practice 2012, 18(2), 30-38.
• Marinov M, Woroniuk C, Zunder T. Recent Developments with Single Wagon Load Services, Policy and Practice in Europe. In: Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS). 2012, Wrocław, Poland: FedCSIS.
• Marinov M, Mortimer P, Zunder T, Islam D. A Steady State Analysis for Yard Performances. RELIT - Revista de Literatura dos Transportes 2011, 5(1), 33-49.
• Rizzetto L, Ricci S, Marinov M, Zunder T, Schlingensiepen J, Karagyozov K, Dzhaleva-Chonkova A. A Structured Survey on MScs in Transport and Logistics for designing a New Programme. In: 20th International Scientific Conference Transport. 2011, Sofia: VTU.
• Zunder T, Islam DMZ. Benchmarking e-tool empowers SME logistics service users in Europe. Logistics &Transport Focus 2011, 13(2), 40-44.
• Zunder TH, Islam DMZ. E-Logistics Systems Applications for Service Users and Providers. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2011, 2011(2238), 50-60.
• Zunder T, Islam DMZ. eLogistics systems applications for service users and providers. In: The TRB 90th Annual Meeting. 2011, Washington DC, USA.
• Marinov M, Mortimer P, Zunder T, Islam D. Short Haul Rail Freight Services. RELIT - Revista de Literatura dos Transportes 2011, 5(1), 136-153.
• Zunder T, Marinov M. Urban Freight Concepts and Practice: Would a traditional UCC scheme work?. Transport Problems 2011, 6(1), 87-95.
• Marinov M, Zunder T, Islam D. A Concept Paper on Analyzing the Level of Compatibility between Rail Freight Wagons, Freight Transportation Services and Loading Units. Mechanics, Transport, Communications 2010, (1), 0467.
• Zunder T, Islam DMZ. A new logistics quality standard: is it necessary?. Logistics & Transport Focus 2010, 12(10), 30-34.
• Marinov M, Zunder T, Schlingensiepen J, Ricci S, Karagyozov K, Razmov T, Dzhaleva-Chonkova A. Innovative Concepts for Knowledge Exchange, Mobility and Expertise in Rail Freight and Logistics. In: Highlight 2010: Sustainable Development in Logistics (ICLEEE) International Conference of Logistics, Economics and Environmental Engineering. 2010, Maribor, Slovenia: Vocational College of Traffic and Transport.
• Zunder TH, Islam DMZ, Marinov M. Key Issue for Pan-European Rail Freight Services. Transport Problems 2010, 5(3), 33-41.
• Islam DMZ, Zunder TH, Zomer G. The potential of a pan European rail freight service using hub and spoke model. International Journal of Logistics and Transport 2010, 4(2), 21-30.
• Zunder T, Marinov M. Urban freight concepts and practice: Would a traditional UCC scheme work?. In: Transport Problems: IInd International Conference. 2010, Katowice and Kraków, Poland: Silesian University of Technology.
• Marinov M, Zunder T, Islam D. Urban freight consolidation concepts: is there something missing. In: Transport Problems: IInd International Scientific Conference. 2010, Katowice and Kraków, Poland: Silesian University of Technology.
• Marinov M, Zunder TH, Islam DMZ. Urban Freight Consolidation Concepts: Is There Something Missing?. Transport Problems 2010, 5(2), 5-12.
• Pedersen JT, Zunder TH, Westerheim H, Jorna R. Freightwise: ICT framework architecture for freight. In: 7th International Logistics and Supply Chain Conference. 2009, Istanbul, Turkey: Yildiz Technical University.
• Zunder TH, Dellinger JC. City Freight: Evaluation methodology for urban freight transport. In: Ambrosino, G; Boero, M;Nelson, JD; and Romanazzo, M, ed. Systems and Advanced Solutions for eLogistics in the Sustainable City Policies and e-Technologies for Sustainable Freight Distribution in Urban Areas. Rome: ENEA, 2006, pp.299-310.
• Zunder TH, Ibanez JN. Road pricing and effect on urban freight. In: The Sustainable City III: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. 2004, Siena, Italy: WIT Press.
• Zunder T, Ibañéz JN. Road Pricing and Freight (part 1). Logistics and Transport FOCUS 2004.
• Zunder T, Ibañéz JN. Road pricing and freight (part 2). Logistics and Transport FOCUS 2004.
• Zunder TH, Nicolás IJ. Urban freight logistics in the European Union. European Transport \ Trasporti Europei 2004, (28), 77-84.