July 27, 2022 — New Urban Freight Lab paper Modeling The Competing Demands of Carriers, Building Managers, and Urban Planners to Identify Balanced Solutions for Allocating Building and Parking Resources has been published in the September issue of Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives Journal.
Co-authored by Haena Kim, Anne Goodchild, and Linda Boyle, the study looks at how planners, carriers, and property managers use current building infrastructure and parking facilities, estimates future delivery patterns that would overflow the current infrastructure, and identifies data-driven strategies to optimally and efficiently allocate space for varying users.
As parcel delivery and the demand for curb space is only increasing, tracking and analyzing demand for and usage of curbspace in the final 50 feet of the urban goods delivery system can policymakers understand the current need and develop data-driven policy to meet future demand.
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About the Urban Freight Lab (UFL): The Urban Freight Lab is a structured partnership of academic researchers, public sector agencies, and private sector firms — shippers, retailers, tech providers, property owners, and manufacturers — working collaboratively to identify complex urban freight management problems and design solutions to make industry more efficient and cities more sustainable and livable.