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Sustainable urban logistics involves implementing environmentally conscious and efficient practices in the transportation and delivery of goods within urban areas. It aims to reduce the environmental impact of transportation, optimize delivery routes, and enhance the overall well-being of urban communities while maintaining an efficient logistics system.
Start Date: January 2022
Summary:
This project studies the Pedaling Relief Project in Seattle, a volunteer bike-based system that supports food rescue, grocery delivery, and pantry restocking. It looks at how cargo bikes move food between food banks, businesses, and community pantries as part of a last-mile delivery network. Using real operational data, the project examines how the system works in practice and where it can be improved. The goal is to better understand and strengthen volunteer-powered food delivery systems in cities.
This project studies the Pedaling Relief Project in Seattle, a volunteer bike-based system that supports food rescue, grocery delivery, and pantry restocking. It looks at how cargo bikes move food between food banks, businesses, and community pantries as part of a last-mile delivery network. Using real operational data, the project examines how the system works in practice and where it can be improved. The goal is to better understand and strengthen volunteer-powered food delivery systems in cities.
Start Date: January 2020
Funding: Amazon
Project Budget: $50,000
Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Anne Goodchild
Summary:
Through synthesis of existing literature and interviews conducted with private and public stakeholders, this project aims to provide an overview of the barriers to achieving sustainable urban freight. The research will highlight key strategies that can enable sustainable last mile delivery in the urban environment and, importantly, outline the specific roadblocks to carrying out those strategies. This will help companies and public entities form sustainability plans and understand where collaboration between the two sectors in needed.
Through synthesis of existing literature and interviews conducted with private and public stakeholders, this project aims to provide an overview of the barriers to achieving sustainable urban freight. The research will highlight key strategies that can enable sustainable last mile delivery in the urban environment and, importantly, outline the specific roadblocks to carrying out those strategies. This will help companies and public entities form sustainability plans and understand where collaboration between the two sectors in needed.