News and Announcements

September 13, 2017 — Technology was the theme of the day for the Urban Freight Lab on September 12. At the very first Tech Day hosted by the SCTL Center, UFL members and venture capital leaders spent the afternoon listening to presentations and discussing how three very different emerging technologies could be applied to the Lab’s two priority problems. Conversations continued at the Innovative Freight Technologies Executive Forum dinner immediately following Tech Day.

July 17, 2017 —  With over half of the world’s population concentrated in cities, mobility has become increasingly more complicated due to rising gridlock, pollution, and ineffective mass transit plaguing people across the world. After identifying these problems, Ford Motor Company started to explore opportunities, experiments, and emerging solutions that will shape how the ‘City of Tomorrow’ could potentially address these growing issues.

May 9, 2017 — Urban Freight Lab research assistants and Ph.D. students Jose Machado and Gabriela Giron won first place at the 2017 Washington State Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Night Competition.

March 3, 2017 — New Urban Freight Lab paper "Are Cities’ Delivery Spaces in the Right Places? Mapping Truck Load/Unload Locations" authored has been accepted for presentation at the City Logistics Conference in Thailand on June 14-16, 2017. Barb Ivanov, SCTL Center chief operatung officer, will present part of the groundbreaking research the Urban Freight Lab is doing with the Seattle Department of Transportation to address the lack of space for trucks to deliver goods in urban centers.

February 15, 2017 — The Urban Freight Lab was announced as a finalist for the 2017 Sustainability Leadership Award for Resilience: Effective Action Addressing Climate Change Vulnerability by Sustainable Seattle. Started in the early ’90s, the Sustainability Leadership Awards recognize the accomplishments of individuals, organizations, and businesses that are helping make the Puget Sound region more sustainable, resilient, and equitable.

February 13, 2017 — Congratulations to SCTL Center Founding Director Anne Goodchild on promoting to full Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, effective September 2017.

December 12, 2016 — The Urban Freight Lab (UFL), part of the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center, held its inaugural meeting today at the UW Seattle campus with City of Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) partners and founding industry members Costco Wholesale, Nordstrom, UPS, and USPS.

October 12, 2016 — The Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center officially opened today with a Grand Opening event held at the University of Washington campus, and announced the debut of the Urban Freight Lab (UFL), a strategic partnership between the public sector and private industry.