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Urban Freight
VREF started the FUT Theme Urban Freight in order to consider the challenges and opportunities for cities and the many actors involved in delivery of goods and services in urban areas.
The FUT Theme Urban Freight involves leading universities, industry partners and cities in more than 10 countries in Europe, Asia, North- and South America. Local and international meeting places and publications will support the wider outreach of research findings and conclusions.
Theme Urban Freight will consider three main aspects that are of central importance to the future development of urban freight transport:
- Partnerships and leadership
- Efficiency and low-carbon solutions in urban freight systems
- Sharing the urban space: Multi-level interaction and trade-offs
Theme News
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Save the date! the 4th VREF Conference on Urban Freight will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, 14-16 October 2020.
2019-12-09 The Urban Freight Platform is pleased to invite you to the 4th VREF Conference on Urban Freight. The theme for the 2020 Conference will be “Urban freight and liveable cities: Interactions between plan... -
MoM Webinar: Behavior Changes, technology, and Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Urban Congestion - Now recording available on-line
2019-02-11 The recording of the session of Meeting of the Minds (MoM) webinar presented by José Holguin-Veras of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on February 6, 2019 is now available on-line. -
Urban Freight Platform Conference 2016 - Accommodating urban freight in city planning - A collection of best papers now released and accessible for free
2019-02-05 The collection gathers ten studies with examples taken from cities in Europe, the USA, Asia and South America, and covers through articles different dimensions of planning including the way to accomod... -
Urban Freight Platform Conference- Designing urban space and managing flows – the importance of freight for liveable cities, Output
2018-12-06 The Urban Freight Platform in Gothenburg had its 3rd VREF Conference on Urban Freight this mid-October. The conference presented current issues influencing urban freight research and discussed the com...
Research Briefs
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Urban Freight in Delhi: Characteristics and Mobility Restrictions
2017-11-02 Freight Trip Generation (FTG) modeling is crucial for freight decision makers considering the use of mobility restrictions as an intervention to reduce freight externalities. The authors have conduct... -
Organising and Managing Urban Freight Partnership
2015-05-26 Partnerships can contribute significantly to solving urban freight problems; they provide a good opportunity to consider the various perspectives of stakeholders and thereby identify possible soluti...
Theme search
The VREF invites PhD students and researchers in early stages of their career to apply for a Study Visit Grant to be supported with up to SEK 30 000.
NOW CLOSED - A new call is expected to open early 2020
Blog! Blog! Blog!
This Meeting of the Minds' blog monthly releases interviews of global transportation researchers from the VREF's Future Urban Transport Program Network.
This CityFix series, produced by the WRI (World Ressources Institute) Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and supported by the VREF, discusses walking and cycling in cities with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Each year the Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research awards a scholarship to a prominent researcher.
About VREF
The Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) inspires, initiates and supports research and educational activities through the Future Urban Transport Programme - How to deal with the complexity of urban transport (FUT).
Our Vision: Sustainable transport for equitable access in urban areas
