In the Media

Major cities today are marked by competing interests — pedestrians, autos, bikes, public transit, businesses — to the point where reaching consensus on how to solve traffic congestion seems impossible. But that’s not how Anne Goodchild sees it.

The report documents the impacts of the closure on freight flow, businesses, and carriers, explores current freight movements and quantify freight demand, and identifies mitigation strategies for freight flow to and from West Seattle, both during the bridge closure and beyond.

In celebration of its fifth anniversary, the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center (SCTL) is looking in the rearview mirror.

Dr. Anne Goodchild, Director of the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center at the University of Washington, discusses urban logistics and parcel lockers.

Urban Freight Lab researchers have published a new paper, “Identifying the Challenges to Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Deliveries: Perspectives from Public and Private Stakeholders,” in Sustainability Journal, part of the project on Roadblocks to Sustainable Urban Freight.

Amazon's warehouse expansion has brought its presence closer to neighborhoods, raising tensions with residents and unions. Anne Goodchild in Bloomberg News: "It should be something that communities feel they have a voice in."

The average Prime order might constitute radically different items, which are both guaranteed to make it to your doorstep in 24 hours or less. “It gets harder to consolidate,” Anne Goodchild, a professor of engineering at the University of Washington.

“Warp brings a fierce appetite for innovation, bringing high-impact, low-cost solutions to goods delivery in urban settings and cities,” said Anne Goodchild, director of the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center. “Having worked together previously on the Seattle Neighborhood Delivery Hub with great success, we are looking forward to seeing what we can do next.”

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell names a search committee for a permanent director of the Seattle Department of Transportation — a "robust committee of transportation leaders and community partners" — including our Anne Goodchild.

The event, “How Zero-Emission Urban Last Mile Deliveries Work for Cities,” hosted by Anne Goodchild, brought together several companies working to solve delivery congestion issues.

Anne Goodchild talks about the competition for urban curb space and possible solutions for allocating space.

FreightWaves caught up with Penn State’s Andisheh Ranjbari (formerly Manager, Urban Freight Lab) after hearing her presentation at the urban freight session at the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting in Washington earlier this month.

“It is very normal now for trucking and logistics companies to talk about sustainability not as some peripheral thing but as a fundamental shift,” Prof. Anne Goodchild said, adding that Amazon, by making commitments upfront, is “helping to create a market.” 

A pilot project in Seattle through the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab tests an “open-network” locker, which can store deliveries from multiple retailers. It’s part of a three-year project testing the ability of different technology solutions to reduce delivery vehicle dwell time and planet-warming carbon emissions. An initial pilot program eliminated failed first deliveries and reduced delivery time.

A pilot program that used electric cargo bikes to make deliveries in a Seattle neighborhood reduced emissions for each package by 30 percent.