News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, September 12, 2014
METRANS and MetroFreight Directors Gen Giuliano and Tom O'Brien, Researchers Laetitia Dablanc, Eleonora-Morganti, and Qian Wang, and PhD students Shaui (Louis) Tang and Sanggyun Kang represented the MetroFreight Center of Excellence at the 2014 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (PASI-SUFS) held from August 3rd through August 15th in Bogota, Colombia. USC Price Urban Planning PhD student Sanggyun Kang was awarded Volvo Research and Educational ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, September 5, 2014
METRANS and MetroFreight Director Genevieve Giuliano traveled to Washington, D.C. this summer to offer insights on a recent slate of recommendations that memebers of the National Freight Advisory Committee (NFAC) submitted to (former) U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in June. Giuliano is serving as one of three designated freight experts appointed to the committee by former Secretary LaHood. Giuliano's fellow designated freight experts are Jose Holguin-Veras, Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Sunday, August 3, 2014
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 interest in freight transportation issues. This presentation looks at spatial patterns of freight and logistics activities and the impacts associated with them. It focuses on a phenomenon known as logistics sprawl, which is the tendency of warehouses to move away from urban regions ...
