News and Announcements

July 16, 2020 — Food waste is an increasing problem in cities across the U.S. In Seattle alone, nearly 100,000 tons of food per year is sent to landfills as far as 300 miles away, wasting resources and generating greenhouse gas emissions, while members of our community remain food insecure.

July 6, 2020 — The Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics degree program has ranked #20 in North America (#15 public) best online master's degree program in supply chain by Gartner, up four places from the previous 2018 ranking (the first time we were eligible as a hybrid in-person and online program).

June 25, 2020 — The Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics program (MSCTL) has named incoming student Valerie Cawby (MSCTL '22) winner of the 2020-22 SCTL Scholarship Award. Cawby will receive $20,000 towards tuition expenses over the next two years. "I know there were a lot of qualified and deserving candidates for the scholarship," said Cawby.

June 22, 2020 — The Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Master's degree program is proud to announce that the inaugural recipient of our 2020-22 SCTL Scholarship is incoming student Valerie Cawby (MSCTL '22).

June 15, 2020 — SCTL Founding Director and Professor Anne Goodchild was awarded the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Outstanding Mentor Award for 2020, announced by Chair Laura Lowes during this year's Graduation celebration. The award is determined by a vote of graduating students. "I am incredibly honored to receive recognition from the students in the form of the Department Outstanding Mentor Award," said Goodchild.

June 10, 2020 — Urban Freight Lab Research Assistant and doctoral student Fiete Krutein is joining Amazon's Middle Mile Transportation Research Team as an Operations Research Science intern for Summer Quarter, working in mathematical transportation optimization. "I am particularly excited about changing my perspective.

June 10, 2020 — Urban Freight Lab Research Assistant and Student Research Group Manager Haena Kim is joining Nike's Global Operations and Logistics (GOaL) Supply Chain Analytics team as a Data Science intern for Summer Quarter. She will work with supply chain experts and data scientists who have backgrounds in optimization, statistics, and machine learning.

JUNE 1, 2020 — The Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center is pleased to release the Call for Papers for The Curb Lane: Analysis & Policy, a special issue of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.

MAY 29, 2020 — The Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center is pleased to announce that parking magnate REEF Technology is the newest member of our Urban Freight Lab (UFL), an innovative public-private partnership working collaboratively across sectors to design and test improvements to the urban goods delivery system. "We are very excited to welcome REEF as a new member and look forward to undertaking new projects with them," said Andisheh Ranjbari, Urban Freight Lab manager.

APRIL 23, 2020—The Urban Freight Lab has received funding by the Valle Scholarship & Scandinavian Exchange Program to launch Aurora Freight, a multinational research collaboration with four leading urban freight research programs in the Northern latitudes.

MARCH 18, 2020 — The City of Seattle is seeking proposals requesting the purchase, installation, and maintenance of vehicle detection sensors to monitor and provide real-time occupancy data for on-street load zones in a ten square-block area of Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. The pilot project will serve to inform the City and the University of Washington Urban Freight Lab about how sensor equipment can effectively expedite urban goods deliveries. Proposals are due no later than 2:30 p.m.

March 3, 2020 — Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center Founding Director Anne Goodchild has been appointed as Visiting Professor of Business Administration (Logistics) at the Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law (SBEL) at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden. She will spend several weeks in Sweden during calendar years 2020-2022 engaged in both teaching and research, funded by the Elof Hansson Foundation.

FEBRUARY 12, 2020 — At the Urban Freight Lab, we study the urban logistics environment and test solutions to overcome some of the challenges carriers face in delivering goods and freight in urban areas. As researchers, we immensely value learning first-hand about the challenges drivers and carriers face everyday in delivering and picking up goods and freight in urban areas, and how they deal with these challenges.

JANUARY 2, 2020 — Belltown dwellers will soon see on city streets some new technologies that could reduce congestion and make goods delivery more energy-efficient and productive, thanks to our 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 research funded through a U.S. Department of Energy grant.

DECEMBER 1, 2019 — The University of Washington’s top-ranked Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics degree program has announced that it will award several scholarships to students (up to $20,000) beginning in Autumn Quarter 2020.