News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
MetroFreight researcher Alison Conway and co-authors received the 14 th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) best paper award for the Freight Transport and Logistics track. Alison Conway, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, City College of New York, presented the paper, Cargo cycles for local delivery in New York City: Performance and impacts, during the Electric Vehicles, Alternative Fuels and Cargo Bikes session on July 14, 2016 . Her co-authors include Jialei ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, June 24, 2016
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, June 3, 2016
The Urban Freight Platform invites you to submit papers for The VREF Conference on Urban Freight 2016: Plan for the future - sharing urban space 17-19th of October 2016, Gothenburg Deadline for abstract submission extended to 12th June 2016! Participation at the conference is free of charge! The second international conference organised by the Urban Freight Platform will discuss the complexity of freight transport in urban areas with a focus on the need to share space both at ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
VREF MetroFreight New York Team Sponsors On April 7, 2016, several MetroFreight team members from New York participated in a conference on Transportation Transformed: Advancing Eco-Friendly Mobility, which was sponsored by the University Transportation Research Center and co-sponsored by the New York State Department of Transportation and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Speakers that day reflected on the challenges and potential for encouraging preferred ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Call for papers The Urban Freight Platform invites you to submit papers for the The VREF conference on Urban Freight 2016: Plan for the future - sharing urban space 17-19th of October 2016, Gothenburg The second international conference organised by the Urban Freight Platform will discuss the complexity of freight transport in urban areas with a focus on the need to share space both at the city and regional level. Topics will include: sharing space for freight and passenger ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Quan (Jack) Yuan, PhD candidate in Urban Planning and Development at the University of Southern California (USC), has recently been awarded a Study Visit Grant from the Volvo Research & Educational Foundations (VREF). Jack is currently involved with the MetroFreight Center of Excellence that is funded by VREF, working under the direction of Professor Genevieve Giuliano on urban freight research. Specifically, his recent research focuses on the environmental impacts of warehouses ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight, NCST
Thursday, April 21, 2016
The Spring 2016 Issue of METRANS News is now available. Click here for a PDF version. METRANS News is generally published three times a year and summarizes METRANS research, education and outreach activities. It highlights METRANS researchers, conferences and other events, recent publications, interviews with key individuals involved in METRANS, and other newsworthy activities and events. It is distributed to university transportation centers and faculty throughout the U.S., to federal, state, and local public agencies, and to the transportation industry. To be added to the mailing list for a hard copy of the newsletter or to receive an email announcement regarding each new issue, please contact [email protected] .
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
IFFSTAR hosted the first MetroFreight Urban Freight Training Seminar in Paris in December 2015. The two-day interactive workshop brought regional and municipal-level transportation planners from across France together to learn about legislative changes impacting the work of the planning agency, the results of the recently completed Paris Freight Survey and to discuss Best Practices. The trainees worked in teams to address urban logistics challenges and presented their findings to leading industry experts. The format proved popular with the trainees who welcomed the opportunity to work with peers from other regions and to learn from practitioners. The training will be repeated in 2016 and will include not only transport professionals, but city planners and representatives from economic development and commerce departments as well. Below are some photos from the training seminar.
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Henrik Nolmark is the Executive Director of the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, backer of the METROFREIGHT Center of Excellence based at METRANS, and a major funder of the 2015 INUF Conference. Henrik joined host Mat Kaplan for this exclusive conversation at the Long Beach, California gathering. TransCast is available here .
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Monday, December 7, 2015
Alison Conway, Assistant Professor, City College of New York, presents research on Cargo Cycles for Local and Last Mile Delivery: Lessons from New York City. This research seminar took place at Portland State University on December 4, 2015. Professor Conway’s research interests include the interface between freight and green non-motorized modes of transportation in urban settings. To read more, clik here . The presentation can be accessed from the slideshare website and the seminar video can be accessed on YouTube .
