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.
To that end, Ford convened a City of Tomorrow Symposium in San Francisco, a conference dedicated to diagnosing, analyzing and proposing solutions to the many challenges facing cities as they prepare for the future. The event gathered experts and enthusiasts in numerous fields – from elected officials and urban planners to utility companies, academics and citizens – to discuss the key issues our cities need to address, and the need for extensive collaboration between government, local officials and the private sector.
Anne Goodchild led a session on Delivering the Future, focused on innovations needed to support new and reliable models for the delivery of goods in today’s urban environments. Panelists included Daphne Carmeli, Deliv; Laura Richards, DC Department of Transportation; and Kevin Vasconi, Domino’s Pizza.
About the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center: The Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center at the University of Washington is the go-to place to analyze and solve urban goods delivery, sustainability, logistic hubs and ports, and freight system performance management problems that overlay private and public spaces and control.
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