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What Do We Want? Approaching Urban Freight From a Community Lens

University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada

Dr. Anne Goodchild presents "What Do We Want? Approaching Urban Freight From a Community Lens" as part of the University of Toronto's Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series. Abstract While transportation planning has practiced community-engaged planning for many years, the practice is less well-established for freight projects. Historically freight activity was associated with industrial and commercial landuses and the impacted communities largely considered to be freight-related businesses. This oversight has for many years led to conflicts within...

Kent Seminar: What do we want? Approaching Urban Freight from a Community Lens. (Anne Goodchild)

Join Anne Goodchild, University of Washington, as she presents in person at the Spring 2024 Kent Seminar Series; view via Zoom or in-person. Lecture Title: “What do we want? Approaching Urban Freight from a Community Lens.” Abstract: While transportation planning has practiced community-engaged planning for many years, the practice is less well-established for freight projects. Historically freight activity was associated with industrial and commercial land uses and the impacted communities largely considered to be freight-related businesses. This oversight has for...

Last-Mile Logistics Innovations: Parking Guidance Systems and Sidewalk Delivery Robots

More Hall 218 University of Washington

The Urban Freight Lab is hosting Prof. Michele Simioni (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) for a seminar on “Last-Mile Logistics Innovations: Parking Guidance Systems and Sidewalk Delivery Robots.” Abstract: The talk will delve into the topics of curbside management, simulation, and optimization. The first and main part will discuss alternative traffic management strategies for last-mile delivery operations. Various parking guidance approaches involving allocating commercial vehicles to dedicated loading/unloading bays are investigated alongside a vehicle-specific geofence strategy. Methodologically, an...