Tender: Development of UK National Freight Model for Road, Rail and Domestic Maritime

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The Department for Transport (DfT) is seeking a supplier to design, develop, calibrate, validate and implement a new in‑house National Freight Model (NFM) that replaces existing approaches and provides a multimodal analytical framework to estimate current and future freight demand and flows by commodity, vehicle type and transport mode across road, rail and domestic maritime. The model must cover domestic and international movements to and from the UK, support analysis of infrastructure, land use, economic conditions, logistics behaviours and policy interventions, enable testing of scenarios and sensitivities for transport planning, network resilience, decarbonisation and mode shift assessments, and include documentation, supporting methodologies, any required data collection or acquisition, stakeholder engagement, training and handover so the Department can operate, maintain and further develop the model independently. Procurement may also include associated research, innovative analytical approaches and development of new methodologies needed to deliver the required capabilities.