News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
AFILOG ( www.afilog.org ), one of the main French logistics providers’ organizations, has teamed up with the MetroFreight Paris team to set up a research project on urban planning issues related to the accommodation of logistics facilities in dense urban centers. The project will last from fall 2015 to the end of June 2016. It will involve a Master’s thesis on the issue, supervised by Laetitia Dablanc.
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Paris&Co, the Paris economic development agency, has launched a program to promote innovative experiments in sustainable urban logistics. Thirty-two proposals were submitted in June 2015. Evaluations took place during a two-day audition on June 24-25 in which Laetitia Dablanc (MetroFreight Paris) participated as a member of the jury. Final decisions will be announced at the end of July 2015. Experiments proposed range from the use of a barge for urban freight transportation on the Seine River to accommodation of urban logistics spaces in commercial and office buildings in dense Paris neighborhoods. Both large companies as well as start-ups participated. The description of the program can be found at: http://expe.parisregionlab.com/projet/181
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, June 26, 2015
Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Theo Notteboom have co-authored The Legacy and Future of the Panama Canal: From Point of Transit to Transshipment Hub, a featured article in TR NEWS published by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies . In 2014, the Panama Canal celebrated its centennial – spotlighting its legacy as a gateway of international trade but also raising questions about its future in an increasingly integrated global economy. The authors explore the transformations ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Thursday, June 4, 2015
IFSTTAR and the City of Paris are both involved in the CITYLAB European project consortium addressing the challenge of the Horizon 2020 program on “Smart, green and integrated transport,” topic MG5.2.2014, “Reducing impacts and costs of freight and service trips in urban areas.” The project is coordinated by the Institute of Transport Economics (TOI), Norway over a 3 year period, from May 2015 until April 2018. The kick-off meeting took place on Thursday, May 21, ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Professor, Department of Global Studies & Geography, Hofstra University will teach a 35 hour graduate course titled “Hinterland Transport and Logistics” at the Chongqing University in Chongqing, China. The course will focus on the inland dimension of port and maritime activities. The growth of maritime shipping is placing pressures on ports to improve the capacity and reliability of hinterland services. Infrastructure investments such as the development ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
A VREF Study Visit Grant has been awarded to Takanori Sakai on behalf of the MetroFreight Center of Excellence (CoE). Mr. Sakai is a PhD student in Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, working with Kazuya Kawamura. He requested the grant to work with Dr. Laetitia Dablanc, French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR), on logistics sprawl. The study visit is for a one month period of time and Dr. Dablanc ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Urban Freight: Planning for tomorrow and delivering today. A two day conference was held in Gothenburg, Sweden on March 5 – 6, 2015 that focused on the following themes: 1) The importance of urban freight in long term land use and city planning and urban design; and, 2) How to engage with all the relevant stakeholders and encourage changes in behavior (in the short, medium and longer term). MetroFreight Partners presented urban freight research at the conference as listed below. Using proxies to describe the metropolitan freight landscape Genevieve Giuliano, VREF CoE MetroFreight University of Southern California The place of freight in the Paris region's three master plans (transport, land use and energy) Laetitia Dablanc, IFSTTAR
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Three deserving Ph.D. students from our MetroFreight Center of Excellence were selected to attend the two part VREF Workshop 2014: Transforming Access, Mobility, and Delivery in Cities - Turning Knowledge into Action in New York last month. Beginning on October 26 with a student reception, Adrien Beziat and Adeline Heitz from the University of Paris – East, and Shuai (Louis) Tang from the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York participated in the VREF Ph.D. Student/Young Researcher Workshop 2014 . That program took place at Columbia University and was followed by the ensuing major conference in New York City from October 28 – 30. These young researchers were given the opportunity to share highlights of their research efforts as guests of Volvo Research & Educational Foundations (VREF) for their four day stay in New York, while being introduced to experienced transportation researchers from across the globe.
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, September 26, 2014
On Friday, September 26, 2014, Marco Dean, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London presented his research regarding decision making for mega projects to students, faculty, and practitioners at the University of Southern California as part of the METRANS Transportation Research Seminar Series and the Volvo Educational Research Foundations (VREF) Educational Exchange program. Defined as extremely large-scale investment projects, typically costing more than $1 billion, ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, September 12, 2014
Seven transportation PhD students from USC have been selected to present their research at the 54th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) conference, Big Ideas, Global Impacts, to be held October 30 to November 2 in Philadelphia. The students are: Sandip Chakrabarti, Andy Hong, Yuting Hou, Mohja Rhoads, Eun Jin Shin, Xize Wang, and Quan Yuan. More information regarding the conference is at http://www.acsp.org/conferences/annual_conference
