Dr. Giacomo Dalla Chiara

• Urban transportation
• Urban logistics
• Operations research
• Effectiveness of ebikes for last-mile delivery

• Leveraging a Connected Network of Unattended Micro-Pantries to Reduce Food Waste and Improve Food Security
• Balancing Freight and Goods Delivery Needs in Designing Complete Streets
• WAlking and PArking Dynamics of Drivers (WAPADD): Analysis and Model Development for Sustainable Urban Delivery

• The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States (2024)
• The art of (mis)loading deliveries (2024)
• Analysis of Online Shopping and Shopping Travel Behaviors in West Seattle (2023)
• Do Parcel Lockers Reduce Delivery Times? Evidence from the Field (2023)
• How Cargo Cycle Drivers Use the Urban Transport Infrastructure (2023)
• Biking the Goods: How North American Cities Can Prepare for and Promote Large-Scale Adoption of E-Cargo Bikes (2023)
• New Urban Freight Developments and Land Use (2023)
• Final Report: Technology Integration to Gain Commercial Efficiency for the Urban Goods Delivery System, Meet Future Demand for City Passenger and Delivery Load/Unload Spaces, and Reduce Energy Consumption (2022)
• Providing Curb Availability Information to Delivery Drivers Reduces Cruising for Parking (2022)
• How to Improve Urban Delivery Routes’ Efficiency Considering Cruising for Parking Delays (2022)
• What is the Right Size for a Residential Building Parcel Locker? (2022)
• Giving Curb Visibility to Delivery Drivers (2022)
• Understanding and Mitigating Freight-Related Impacts from the West Seattle Bridge Closure (2022)
• Roadblocks to Sustainable Urban Freight (2022)
• Improving Delivery Efficiency and Understanding User Behavior through Common Carrier Parcel Lockers (2022)

• Best Practical Implications Paper Award, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Urban Freight Committee (AT025) for “Commercial Vehicle Driver Behaviors and Decision Making: Lessons Learned from Urban Ridealongs” (2021)
• President’s Graduate Fellowship, Singapore University of Technology and Design (2013-2018)

• Ph.D., Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) (2018)
  Dissertation: Commercial Vehicles Parking in Congested Urban Areas
• M.S., Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (2012)
  Thesis: Factor Approach to Forecasting with High-Dimensional Data
• B.S., Economics and Business, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) (2010)
  Thesis: A Monopolistic State in Competitive Markets

Dr. Giacomo Dalla Chiara is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Urban Freight Lab. Before moving to Seattle, he was postdoctoral research fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2018 and visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. He holds a PhD in Engineering Systems from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore), a MSc in Statistics from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and a BSc in Economics from LUISS University (Italy).

His research focuses on statistical methods applied to urban mobility problems. His work involves developing models and simulations to study and develop new sustainable urban logistics practices.

• The Practicum (SCTL 507)

• Guest Editor, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (Elsevier) (2021)