In the Media

Freight demand is growing, and consumers increasingly would rather shop for and purchase goods online, often having them delivered to their door. Anne Goodchild, director of the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center at the University of Washington-Seattle, noted that e-commerce is gaining fast in terms of its share of U.S. retail sales, climbing 16% from 2016 to 2017, to a total of $453.5 billion.

Researcher Anne Goodchild explains how simple ideas like lockers and cargo bikes could make our neighborhoods more livable.

Every fleet manager is aware of the current delivery dilemma facing major cities in the U.S. In a recent Fleet Owner webinar, Anne Goodchild, director of Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center at the University of Washington weighed in on this issue.

With e-commerce sales of $453.5 billion in 2017, Anne Goodchild shares potential shipping and routing strategies for tackling the ever-growing e-commerce rate in metro cities.

Barbara Ivanov, Director of the Urban Freight Lab: “Tickets are eaten as cost of business because there are no other alternatives. System must allow people to do their work without forcing them to engage in illegal behavior. Can meter, can ticket, but without actual building management change you haven’t affected behavior. Must work with managers, owners, and developers.”  

Since the last mile of delivery to individual homes is the most expensive, in the future people will may go to the post office instead. Anne Goodchild comments.

Your Prime Day shopping spree came with free, fast shipping. Experts—including our own Anne Goodchild—weighs in on the hidden environmental cost that doesn’t show up on the checkout page.

Who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers: Barb Ivanov. "Finally, someone’s thinking outside the stolen box."

Bill Keough says that for a number of reasons, humanitarian supply chains have been slower than their corporate counterparts to re-engineer their global supply chains.

“After 36 hours, the value of the fish plummets. It’s not considered fresh anymore,” said CEE research associate professor Ed McCormack, who helped facilitate the program. “From a cargo point of view, fresh fish is expensive and fragile and it has to move really fast.”

Barb Ivanov, the director of the Urban Freight Lab at the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center of the University of Washington, discusses solving freight system problems and ways the public- and private-sector overlap.

Inbound Logistics recently caught up Bill Keough to find out how the University of Washington is addressing the talent gap in the supply chain/logistics sector.

Students and professors from the University of Tromsø and the the University of Washington in Seattle, will take the long salmon routes in Norway. The creative student collaboration – which will look into how to make the roads safer, more accessible, and efficient – is called “The Seafood Industry Transportation Challenge.”

New Urban Freight Lab study shines spotlight on some unique benefits of parcel lockers.

For the first time in the United States or Europe, the Urban Freight Lab led a test of a common carrier locker system in a public building.