Gabriela Girón-Valderrama(no longer at UFL/SCTL)
- Research Assistant, Urban Freight Lab
- Ph.D. Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Transportation Track)
- Supporting Comprehensive Urban Freight Planning by Mapping Private Load and Unload Facilities (2023)
- Characterization of Seattle’s Commercial Traffic Patterns: A Greater Downtown Area and Ballard/Interbay Vehicle Count and Evaluation (2021)
- Bringing Alleys to Light: An Urban Freight Infrastructure Viewpoint (2020)
- Commercial Vehicle Parking in Downtown Seattle: Insights on the Battle for the Curb (2019)
- Understanding the Use of the Curb Space and Alley for Unloading and Loading Operations: A Seattle Case Study (2018)
- Safe Truck Parking in PacTrans Interstate Corridors: I-5 and I-90 (2018)
- Mapping Urban Freight Infrastructure for Planning: A Demonstration of a Methodology (2018)
- Are Cities’ Delivery Spaces in the Right Places? Mapping Truck Load/Unload Locations (2018)
- From the Last Mile to the Last 800 Feet: Key Factors in Urban Pick-Up and Delivery of Goods (2017)
- Rising Star, Carnegie Mellon University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Stars workshop (2020)
- Thomas D. Larson Fellow, Eno Center for Transportation Future Leaders Program (2019)
- Recipient, Women’s Transportation Seminar Puget Sound – Scott White Memorial Scholarship (2018)
- First Place, Washington State Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Night Competition (2017)
- Scholarship Recipient, Fulbright Student Scholarship Program (2015)
- Ph.D., Transportation Engineering, University of Washington (in progress)
- M.S., Civil Engineering (Transportation Track), University of Washington
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Technological University of Panama
Gabriela Girón-Valderrama holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the Technological University of Panama and an MS in Civil Engineering (Transportation Track) from the University of Washington. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of Washington as well as serving as a research assistant for the Urban Freight Lab. She works for the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) as an Urban Freight Coordinator.
She is a member of the Urban Freight Transportation Committee (AT025) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board (TRB).
- Member, Urban Freight Transportation Committee (AT025) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board (TRB)