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Administrative Reports
MetroFreight prepares annual Progress Reports for our Center.  Our most recent Progress Reports are listed below.
Center of Excellence First Year Progress Report - March 2013 to December 2013
Center of Excellence Second Year Progress Report - January 2014 to December 2014
Center of Excellence Mid - term Report - June 2013 to September 2015
Center of Excellence Fourth Year Progress Report - January 2016 to December 2016
Center of Excellence Fifth Year Progress Report - September 2016 to August 2017

Research Briefs
Understanding Freight Flows in Cities I: Does density crowd out freight intensive activities?
How Competition is Driving Change in Port Governance, Strategic Decision-making, and government policy in the United States
The Dualism of Urban Freight Distribution: City vs. Suburban Logistics
The Urban Freight Landscape Atlas
Impacts of Growing Non-Motorized Infrastructure on Freight Operations and Accessibility
Feasibility of Consolidated Freight Deliveries
The Good Impacts of Biking for Goods: Lessons From Paris City
Final Deliveries for Online Shopping: The Rise of Pickup Points in France
Trucks, Trains, Tugs, and Tubes: A Model for More-Efficient Collection and Transfer of Solid Waste, the Predominant Form of First-Mile Urban Freight
Parking for Freight Vehicles in Dense Urban Centers - The Issue of Delivery Areas in Paris
Using Proxies to Describe the Metropolitan Freight Landscape
Impacts of Environmental Access Restrictions on Freight Delivery Activities, the Example of Low Emission Zones in Europe (French)
More efficient siting of warehouse and distribution activity: Logistics Spatial Patterns in Paris and the Paris Basin
Outsourcing in the Urban Freight Industry
Assesing the competitiveness of electric vehicles for last mile deliveries
Alternatives to Truck Transport for Food Products
Congestion caused by urban freight
New trends in e-commerce deliveries: The Rise of Instant Delivery Services in European Cities
A new look at the environmental assesment of logistics spraw Part 1
Developing and testing the freight landscape for Paris
Residential Parcel Deliveries: Evidence from a Large Apartment Complex
Developing a Parcel Freight O-D and Identifying Parcel Freight Determinants for Seoul Metropolitan Area
Development of Freight Modes and Strategies for the CBD of Seoul and its Challenges for the future
Location of warehouses and environmental justice: Evidence from four metros in California
Analysis of WDC trends in the United States
Data Challenges in Urban Freight Research: The Case of Warehousing and Distribution
Decomposing Home-Based Delivery Supply Chains Phase 1
Integrating Management of Truck and Rail Systems in LA
Improving Goods-Movement Efficiency with Load-Matching Technology
Network Analysis of the Multimodal Freight Transportation System in New York City
Evaluating Tradeoffs in Warehousing and Drayage Costs in the Greater Los Angeles Region

Research Reports
Residential Parcel Deliveries: Evidence from a Large Apartment Complex
Understanding Freight flows in cities I: Does density crowd out freight intensive activities?
Sub-Contracting in the Urban Parcel Transport Business: Economic and Social Issues (French)
Biking for Goods is Good: An Assesment of CO2 Savings in Paris
Impacts of Environmental Access Restrictions on Freight Delivery Activities, the Example of Low Emission Zones in Europe
Trucks, Trains, tugs and Tubes: A Model for More-Efficient Collection and Transfer of Solid Waste, the Predominant Form of First-Mile Urban Freight
Using Proxies to Describe the Metropolitan Freight Landscape
Logistics Spatial Patterns in Paris: The Rise of the Paris Basin as a Logistics Megaregion
Parking for freight vehicles in dense urban centers - The issue of delivery areas in Paris
Alternatives to Home Deliveries
Reciprocal congestion: The impacts of freight vehicles on cars’ travel times, and vice-versa
Paris, Urban Laboratory for Urban Logistics
Building the Database
A new look at the environmental assessment of logistics sprawl Part 1
Alternatives to truck transport for food products
Location of warehouses and environmental justice: Evidence from four metros in California
Data Challenges in Urban Freight Research: The Case of Warehousing and Distribution
Network Analysis of Multimodal Freight Transport System in NYC
Integrating Management of Truck and Rail Systems in Los Angeles
Improving Goods-Movement Efficiency with Load-Matching Technology
Analysis of WDC trends in the US
The Dualism of Urban Freight Distribution: City vs. Suburban Logistics
Developing a Parcel Freight O-D and Identifying Parcel Freight Determinants for Seoul Metropolitan Area
Evaluating Tradeoffs between Rental Rates and Drayage Costs of Port Dependent Warehouse Users

Other Publications
E-Commerce as a Driver for City Logistics in China
How competition is driving change in port governance, strategic decision-making and government policy in the United States
Freight in a Bicycle-Friendly City
A Methodology for Assessing the Potential of Electrict Vehicles
The freight landscape: Convergence and divergence in urban freight distribution
Developing and testing the freight landscape for Paris
The Rise of On-Demand 'Instant Deliveries' in European Cities