News & Announcements
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
The METRANS Transportation Center was once again privileged to host Dr. Laetitia Dablanc as a Visiting Scholar from Paris, France for the month of July 2017. Laetitia is Director of Research at the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR), University of Paris-East. Her areas of research are freight transportation, freight and the environment, urban freight and logistics, rail freight, freight policies, and logistics sprawl. The Volvo Research ...
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Two public webinars were convened to gather information from stakeholders and the community on the expected impacts of freight, and possible mitigation strategies. The webinars were titled Addressing Congestion & Delays Caused by Freight and were streamed live from the University of Southern California (USC) on two separate occasions: May 23, 2017 and May 30, 2017. The webinar presenters included Jose Marquez-Chavez, Senior Transportation Planner, Caltrans Office of Freight ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
The VREF invites PhD students and researchers in early stages of their career (max 5 years after PhD exam) to apply for grants for short-term study visits. The invitation is continuously open until October 31st, 2017, and the study visit should be carried out before December 31st, 2017. The VREF wishes to have wide distribution of grants between universities, thus in the first half of 2017 (up to 30 June 2017) a maximum of one (1) grant will be awarded to the same home university. Read more information about the SVG-application
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Monday, January 9, 2017
The MetroFreight Center of Excellence (COE) Partners were graciously hosted by The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) for a multi-faceted 2-day visit to Seoul from July 6 – 7, 2016. Dr. Sangbeom Seo, Research Fellow and Director of the Division for Logistics Policy and Industry, and Jee-Sun Lee, Associate Research Fellow, developed the program and orchestrated the schedule to include multiple venues. The activities for the Partners included: 1) a MetroFreight Business Meeting; 2) an ...
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
Seven MetroFreight researchers from Los Angeles, New York, and Paris presented research papers at the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Conference, “Urban Freight 2016: Plan for the Future – Sharing Urban Space,” in Gothenburg, Sweden from October 17-19. This was the second international conference organized by the Urban Freight Platform (UFP), an initiative supported by VREF. "MetroFreight leaders were inspired by the METRANS biennial International Urban Freight ...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Quanquan Chen, a PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering at the City College of New York, was awarded a Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Study Visit Grant. Quanquan has been working with the MetroFreight team at the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) under the guidance of advisor Dr. Alison Conway to study parking activity associated with curbside delivery to residential buildings in New York City. From November 2 nd to 21 st , 2016, she traveled to Paris, ...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016 marked the first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for ZTO Express, a Chinese delivery firm that was founded 14 years ago. It raised $1.4 billion from its listing as an IPO, the largest on Wall Street this year. ZTO is expecting significant growth potential of home deliveries in China and claims higher profit margins than FedEx or UPS. Alibaba is its main customer, accounting for 70% of ZTO’s business. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, MetroFreight ...
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
While attending the VREF Conference on Urban Freight 2016 in Sweden, Alison Conway, Assistant Professor, The City College of New York, was interviewed by a representative of Chalmers University of Technology. Using the city streets of Gothenburg as a back drop, Professor Conway pointed out urban freight challenges and site specific solutions that she observed in regards to safety, parking and congestion. The Volvo Research & Educational Foundations (VREF) supports the research efforts of the MetroFreight Center of Excellence. Full Article
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Benjamin Miller, Senior Research Fellow, Freight Programs, University Transportation Research Center in New York (and his colleagues [or: partners]) have moved their MetroFreight research project on waste management into the pre-implementation feasibility-analysis phase. For Trucks, Trains, Tugs, and Tubes: A Model for More-Efficient Collection and Transfer of Solid Waste, the Predominant Form of First-Mile Urban Freight, they studied the feasibility of retrofitting neighborhoods ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
The 14 th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) took place on July 10 – 15, 2016 in Shanghai, China. The program included more than 1,170 papers presented in oral and poster sessions. The authors from 65 countries ensured that WCTR 2016 was a truly international event. The MetroFreight Center of Excellence was well represented by research project presentations given by faculty, researchers and doctoral students from the University of Southern California (USC), California State ...
