• Tom Maxner Named Director of the Urban Freight Lab
• UW Researchers Launch Internet-Connected ‘Little Free Pantry’ Mapping Pilot in Seattle

• Pike Place Market Vehicle Access Pilot Evaluation — Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority, Seattle Department of Transportation
• Planning for Low Pollution Neighborhood (LPN): Freight Considerations — Seattle Department of Transportation through U.S. Department of Transportation RAISE (Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity) program

• Last-Mile Freight Curb Access: Digitizing the Last-Mile of Urban Goods to Improve Curb Access and Utilization — Seattle Department of Transportation Technical Report
• Diversity in the evolution of last-mile deliveries: Interactions between e-commerce growth, urban development, planning, and the delivery service market — Case Studies on Transport Policy
• Commercial Vehicle Load Zone programs in U.S. cities — Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
• Revenue-Related Tools for New Mobility — NCHRP Research Report
• Assessing urban curbside parking for commercial vehicles: simulation and policy insights — Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Evaluating the Impacts of Variable Message Signs on Airport Curbside Performance Using Microsimulation — Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
• Increasing nationwide disparities in road freight emissions across cities — Nature Cities
• Explicit consideration of human exposure to minimize freight routing impacts — Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
• Advancing Zero- and Low-Emission Zones: Local Levers to Decarbonize Urban Freight Using Existing Authority — Urban Freight Lab
• Seattle SMART: Digitizing the Last Mile of Urban Goods to Improve Curb Access and Utilization — Urban Freight Lab

• Where Will the Warehouses Go? — American Planning Association Blog

• UW app maps tiny pantries in the Seattle area — NPR

• In Seattle, using the power of data to fight the problem of hunger — The Seattle Times

• Pike Place Market, UW Urban Freight Lab launch visitor survey on street management changes — KOMO News

• Measuring goodwill: Why University of Washington researchers are watching Little Free Pantries — KUOW

• Seattle's Grassroots Food Pantries Just Got Easier to Find — KUOW

• UW maps Seattle's growing Little Free Pantry network — AXIOS Seattle

• Concrete vehicle barriers arrive at Pike Place Market ahead of World Cup — KING 5 News

• Brooklyn Pol Calls for Fewer Trucks after Her Bill Inadvertently Expanded Truck Routes — Streetsblog NYC

• Opinion: How Last-Mile Delivery Can Reduce NYC's Congestion — City Limits

• Rendering shows Pike Place Market barrier plan to restrict vehicles ahead of World Cup — KING 5 News

• How the 'Little Free Pantry' Can Help Feed the Hungry Without Requiring them to Drive — Streetsblog USA

• With community fridges, neighbors feed each other — Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences News

• July 21-22: Washington State Transportation Commission (Online)
• July 28: Urban Freight Lab Quarterly Meeting (Seattle)
• September 9-11: Association for European Transport 54th Conference on Bridging Minds, Building Mobility (Porto, Portugal)
• October 27-29: Association of Sustainable Transportation Researchers Conference (Davis, California)

The Urban Freight Lab is a hub of academic researchers, public agencies, and private sector leaders—including shippers, retailers, technology providers, property owners, and manufacturers—working together to address complex urban freight challenges and develop solutions to make cities more livable, sustainable, and resilient.