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.
The Lab has comprehensively mapped the city’s Commercial Vehicle Load Zones (CVLZs) and all of the private freight loading bays and docks, allowing planners, parking managers, traffic engineers, building code development officials, and researchers to analyze the network effects of reducing or altering the capacity of the CVLZs.
Paper co-authors include Dr. Anne Goodchild, Barb Ivanov, Dr. Ed McCormack, Jose Machado Leon and Gabriela Giron Valderrama from the Urban Freight Lab, and Dr. Anne Moudon and Dr. Jason Scully from Urban Form Lab.
About the Urban Freight Lab (UFL): An innovative public-private partnership housed at the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center at the University of Washington, the Urban Freight Lab is a structured workgroup that brings together private industry with City transportation officials to design and test solutions around urban freight management.