News and Announcements

March 9, 2023 — Urban Freight Lab researchers José Machado, Gabriela Girón-Valderrama, Anne Goodchild, and Ed McCormack have published a new report on Supporting Comprehensive Urban Freight Planning by Mapping Private Load and Unload Facilities — the first urban inventory of private load and unload infrastructure and a demonstrated valuable resource for the City of Seattle to better understand and plan for the urban freight system.

December 21, 2022 — The Urban Freight Lab is cited as a model for stakeholder engagement in New York City's Delivering the Goods: NYC Urban Freight in the Age of Ecommerce, authored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA)Freight and Logistics Working Group as a blueprint for an efficient, equitable, and sustainable goods movement system that benefits the entire city.

February 1, 2023 — How cities and companies shape urban delivery in the coming decade will have important implications for businesses and communities. In January 2022, we launched the Urban Freight 2030 Project to create a collective vision for the urban freight system over the next decade.

December 17, 2022 — The Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics program (MSCTL) has named first-year student Julio Fuentes (MSCTL '24) as recipient of the $5,000 2022 Matson Diversity in Supply Chain Scholarship, selected from this year's pool of applicants for admission. Julio started his transportation engineering career in Mexicali, a U.S.-Mexico border city and hub for manufacturing and export services. Supply chain is in Julio's blood, he says.

December 1, 2022 — A new special issue of Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM) on Urban Logistics: From Research to Implementation, edited by Prof. Anne Goodchild and Prof. Michael Browne (University of Gothenburg). The issue looks at some of the most recent work in urban logistics and examines the most pressing issues, including scalability and sustainability, and includes an editorial. [sc name="more-about-urban-freight-lab"][/sc]

November 17, 2022 — Urban Freight Lab researchers Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Fiete Krutein, Andisheh Ranjbari, and Anne Goodchild have published a new paper on "Providing Curb Availability Information to Delivery Drivers Reduces Cruising for Parking" in Scientific Reports — the first work to explore the impacts of providing curb parking availability data to delivery drivers and evaluate the benefits of digital curb visibility.

November 7, 2022 — Urban Freight Lab researchers Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Griffin Donnelly, Şeyma Güneş, and Anne Goodchild have published the first-of-a-kind detailed profile of a cargo cycle driver's parking and driving behaviors in a new article —  "How Cargo Cycle Drivers Use the Urban Transport Infrastructure" — in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.

November 2, 2022 — The Urban Freight Lab hosted our quarterly membership meeting today at Playground Global, a venture capital firm, tech incubator, and engineering lab in Palo Alto, and home to UFL members Lacuna Technologies and BrightDrop.

October 31, 2022 — Urban Freight Lab researchers Andisheh Ranjbari, Caleb Diehl, Giacomo Dalla Chiara, and Anne Goodchild have published a new paper on "What is the Right Size for a Residential Building Parcel Locker?" in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. The paper investigates the UFL's 2020 study of a common-carrier parcel locker installed in a residential building in downtown Seattle provided by Parcel Pending.

October 17, 2022 — Urban Freight Lab researchers Giacomo Dalla Chiara, and Anne Goodchild have published a new article in the American Planning Association's 2022 State of Transportation Planning report —  "Intersections + Identities A Radical Rethinking of Our Transportation Experiences" —  a highlight of the year's innovative ideas, emerging research, and success stories in transportation.

AUGUST 15, 2022 — The Urban Freight Lab has undertaken a new project writing a white paper on how cities can best prepare for and promote the large-scale adoption of cargo bikes, in collaboration with PeopleForBikes, Cascade Bicycle Club, Bosch e-Bikes, Cornucopia Logistics, Fleet Cycles, Gazelle, Michelin, Seattle Department of Transportation, and Urban Arrows. While cargo bikes have proven their efficiency as a sustainable home delivery transportation method during the pandemic, many U.S.

August 31, 2022 — What is the future of freight? That is the question we're aiming to answer over the next year in our Urban Freight Lab project on Urban Freight in 2030.

August 1, 2022 — The Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center is delighted to announce the appointments of Amelia Regan and Kelly Rula to our team.Regan and Rula bring a wealth of direct experience, research expertise, intellectual leadership, and teaching excellence that will be invaluable to our students, partners, and community.Amelia Regan, Ph.D.: Director, SCTL Master's Degree Program; Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringAmelia ReganAmelia Re…

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.

July 25, 2022 — Do you live, work, shop, or travel in the West Seattle peninsula? Then we want to know what you think! The Urban Freight Lab is collaborating with the City of Seattle Department of Transportation to learn how people get in, out, and around the West Seattle peninsula and whether and/or how the West Seattle Bridge closure has changed your transportation behavior. The West Seattle Bridge is expected to reopen the week of September 12.