News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Monday, November 30, 2015
From Chicago to Paris Takanori Sakai , a PhD student from the University of Illinois at Chicago (supervising Professor Kazuya Kawamura), spent three weeks at IFSTTAR on the Metrofreight Paris team during September-October 2015. Takanori worked with Adeline Heitz and Adrien Beziat on a comparison between Paris and Tokyo regarding the location of warehouses. Takanori benefited from receiving a VREF grant. From Colombia to Paris Paola Cruz , a PhD student from the University of Los Andes in Colombia spent time on the Metrofreight Paris team in November 2015. She worked with Laetitia Dablanc, a co-supervisor of her PhD (supervising Professor Juan Pablo Bocarejo), on city logistics issues in Cali and Bogota. Paola benefited from a VREF grant to spend time at the University of Gothenburg Urban Freight Platform after her stay in Paris.
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, November 20, 2015
The Urban Freight Platform (UFP) organized an international research seminar on urban freight. The focus of the seminar was presenting international and local urban freight research on a wide range of urban freight issues, including presentations by the international speakers Laetitia Dablanc (IFSTTAR, University of Paris-Est) and Paola Andrea Cruz Daraviña (University de los Andes, Bogota), complemented with presentations by researchers from the UFP. You can read more about the event ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, November 13, 2015
More than 20 MetroFreight researchers gave presentations at the 2015 International Urban Freight Conference on October 21-23, 2015, in Long Beach, California. The conference was established in 2006 and is held every two years. Organized by the METRANS Transportation Center, the purpose of I-NUF is to provide a forum for multidisciplinary research on all aspects of urban freight. The presentations are as follows: Mehrdad Aliasgari: A Cost-Effective Smartphone Solution for Traffic Management ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Thursday, November 5, 2015
METRANS now has a blog and the first entry features Geraldine Knatz. Her topic is "Public Investment in Seaports: Have We Reached the Tipping Point? To go the blog section, click on the METRANS Blog banner on the lower left hand side of the home page or go to the About tab at the top of the home page.
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Laetitia Dablanc, a Research Director at IFSTTAR (Paris, France), one of the core partners in CoE MetroFreight, was invited to present VREF Theme Urban Freight at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Expert Meeting on Sustainable Freight Transport, which was held in Geneva on Oct 14-16, 2015. The discussions addressed challenges and opportunities for urban freight systems, and how these can best be addressed in order to seize opportunities, particularly in developing countries' megacities. Delegates from several countries (China, several Latin American countries, Morocco) expressed specific interest in urban freight issues. NGOs such as Climate & Clean Air Coalition, SLoCaT, ICCT, Smart Freight Centre expressed interest in further developing contacts with VREF. You can read more, visit Volvo Research And Educational Foundations page and for event details, click here .
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Call for Papers for the SPECIAL ISSUE titled Urban policy, freight distribution planning and behaviour change: stakeholders’ engagement, perception and reaction to be hosted by Italian Journal of Regional Science Important Dates Submission opens: October 1st, 2015 Deadline for submission of full paper: November 27th, 2015 Feedback from first-round reviews: March 11th, 2016 Deadline for re-submission of papers: July 1st, 2016 Feedback ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Monday, October 5, 2015
By Arpita Sharma , MPP/MPL 2017 Six PhD students from the University of Southern California will present their transportation research at the METRANS International Urban Freight Conference (I-NUF) to be held October 21 to 23, 2015 at the Westin Long Beach Hotel. Established in 2006, The I-NUF Conference provides a forum for multidisciplinary research on all aspects of urban freight. The Conference raises the visibility of and is recognized as the premier venue for urban freight ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Dr. Alison Conway, MetroFreight New York Research Team member, will participate as a featured speaker and share her research in a webinar discussion on August 19, 2015. Click here for more details on the VREF Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems website. The Peer-to-Peer Exchange Program is designed to share global best practice cases and real world examples of sustainable urban freight systems. This program is open to anyone with a professional or a personal ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
A New York City street is not like a street anywhere else in America. It is more frenetic, more teeming, more daunting, more commercial, more electric, more lawless, more infested, more sticky, more musical, more neon. Everywhere, lines are blurred or disobeyed. Pedestrians creep over the curb into the roadway. Restaurants spill out their doors into patio seating. Shoppers who intend to buy nothing at all gawk from the street through the windows instead. And now a UPS truck is honking ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
MetroFreight Director Genevieve Giuliano presented her research on freight landscape as a transportation and land use topic of interest at the 9th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference at Chongqing University in Chongqing, China from June 19-21, 2015. The theme for the event was “New Urbanization: Smart Growth and Sustainable Development.” “Cities are growing exponentially in China and this presents a wide range of transportation planning challenges,” ...
