July 20, 2020 — The Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center is pleased to announce Amazon as the newest member of our Urban Freight Lab (UFL), an innovative public-private partnership working collaboratively across sectors to design and test improvements to the urban goods delivery system.
“We are very pleased to include Amazon’s perspective within the Urban Freight Lab and look forward to including them in ongoing pilot tests and research efforts,” said Anne Goodchild, founding director of the Urban Freight Lab. “As the world’s largest retailer and a rapidly growing carrier, Amazon holds a unique place in the urban logistics space.”
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About the Urban Freight Lab (UFL): An innovative public-private partnership housed at the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center at the University of Washington, the Urban Freight Lab is a structured workgroup that brings together private industry with City transportation officials to design and test solutions around urban freight management. Since launching in December 2016, the UFL has completed an innovative suite of research projects on the Final 50 Feet of delivery, providing foundational data and proven strategies to help cities reduce truck dwell times in load/unload spaces, and failed first delivery attempts by carriers, which lowers congestion, emissions, and costs.
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