News and Announcements

April 26, 2018 — Urban Freight Lab Research Assistant Gabriela Giron (Civil & Environmental Engineering MS '18, Ph.D. student, and Fulbright Scholar) has been named to the Urban Freight Transportation Committee (AT025) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Transportation Research Board (TRB).

March 20, 2018 — Congratulations to Urban Freight Lab Research Assistant and Ph.D. student Jose Machado for receiving the 2017 Concord Engineering - Jason Holdridge Term Graduate Student Support scholarship. Jose and other College of Engineering scholarship recipients were recognized at the 2017 Scholar-Donor Recognition Luncheon on November 14, 2017.

March 20, 2018 — Professor Anne Goodchild was named the 2017 Person of the Year by The Transportation Club of Seattle. The annual award recognizes “an individual who has made extraordinary efforts, impact and contributions to the local transportation field and community.” A CEE faculty member since 2005, Goodchild is the founding director of the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics (SCTL) Center and serves as academic director for the associated master’s degree program.

March 26, 2018 — The Urban Freight Lab at the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center is currently partnering with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to pilot test a common-carrier smart locker system in the Seattle Municipal Tower from March 23 through April 13.

October 24, 2017 — SCTL Center Chief Operating Officer Barb Ivanov joined mayors, journalists, policy and business leaders from across the globe at CityLab Paris earlier this week.

October 18, 2017 — SCTL Center Founding Director Anne Goodchild presented on "Density and delivery: A look at where delivery services reduce VMT over passenger vehicle travel and where they do not" at UCLA's 27th Annual Arrowhead Symposium on Transportation with UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, UCLA Institute for Transportation Studies, Caltrans HQ, and Metro Los Angeles. Panelists also included Dr.

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.

November 28, 2016 — The Grand Opening of the Urban Freight Lab and the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics (SCTL) Center received outstanding news coverage and now turns to action. An AP national story ran in more than 250 outlets nationwide including The New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, U.S. News & World Report, Miami Herald, Salt Lake Tribune, The Seattle Times and many regional outlets.

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.