METRANS Research Project

Publications of METRANS Research Briefs.

More about METRANS can be found here.

Evaluating Tradeoffs in Warehousing and Drayage Costs in the Greater Los Angeles Region (pdf, 647.9 kB)

2018 - Genevieve Giuliano, Nathan Huston

Network analysis of multimodal freight transport (pdf, 752.2 kB)

2018 - Qian Wang, Shuai Tang

Improving Freight Efficiency with Load Matching Technology (pdf, 419.5 kB)

2018 - Seiji Steimetz

Integrating Management of Truck and Rail Systems in LA (pdf, 860.9 kB)

2018 - Maged Dessouky, Lunce Fu, Shichun Hu 

Data Challenges in Urban Freight Research: The Case of Warehousing and Distribution (pdf, 618.5 kB)

2018 - Genevieve Giuliano, Sanggyun Kang 

Analysis of WDC Trends in USA (pdf, 756.9 kB)

2017 - Kang Sanggyun

Location of warehouses & environmental justice: Evidence from four metros in California (pdf, 425.5 kB)

2017 - Giuliano Genevieve, Yuan Quan

Development of Freight Modes and Strategies for the CBD of Seoul and its Challenges for the Future (pdf, 1.1 MB)

2017 - Changjin AHN, Sang Beom SEO, Jee-Sun LEE

Developing Parcel Freight O-D and Identifying Parcel Freight Determinants for Seoul Metropolitan Area (pdf, 518.9 kB)

2017 - Sang Beom SEO, Changjin AHN, Jee-Sun LEE

Residential Parcel Deliveries: Evidence from a Large Apartment Complex (pdf, 678.9 kB)

2017 - J-P. Rodrigue

Testing the ‘Freight Landscape’ Concept for Paris (pdf, 364.9 kB)

2017 - T. Sakai, A. Beziat, A. Heitz, L. Dablanc

A new look at the environmental assessment of logistics sprawl Part 1: The Environmental Impact of Urban Road Freight: A Modeling Exercise for the Paris Region (pdf, 656.3 kB)

2017 - N. Coulombel, L. Dablanc, M. Gardrat, M. Koning

New trends in e-commerce deliveries: The Rise of Instant Delivery Services in European Cities (pdf, 488.6 kB)

2017 - L.Dablanc, E.Morganti, N Arvidsson, J Woxenius, M Browne, N Saidi

Assessing the competitiveness of electric vehicles for last mile deliveries (pdf, 509.7 kB)

2016 - P. Camilleri, L. Dablanc

Hunts Point Terminal Market: The Demand for Waterborne Transportation as a Part of the Outbound-Distribution System (pdf, 673.2 kB)

2015 - S. Yahalom, Captain E. Johansson, Changqian Guan, C. Kamga

Congestion caused by urban freight (pdf, 704.8 kB) (New Version)

2017 - A. Beziat and M. Koning

Outsourcing in the urban parcel and express delivery industry (pdf, 238.8 kB)

2014 - Reme-Harnay, P., Cruz, C., Dablanc, L.

Understanding freight flows in cities I: Does density crowd out freight intensive activities (pdf, 515.4 kB)

2017 - G. Giuliano, Sanggyun Kang, Quan Yuan, Eun-Jin Shin

Dualism City Logistics (pdf, 667.8 kB)

2016 - S. Behrends, J-P Rodrigue

Competition Driving Change in Ports (pdf, 484.8 kB)

2016 - G. Knatz

MF NEWSLETTER 8 (in French) (pdf, 1.2 MB)

2016 - IFSTTAR, France

Impacts of Growing Non-Motorized Infrastructure on Freight Operations and Accessibility (pdf, 197 kB)

2016 Conway, Tavernier, Leal-Tavares, Gharamani, Chauvet, Chiu, Xue

MF NEWSLETTER 7 (in French) (pdf, 1.2 MB)

2016 - IFSTTAR, France

Feasibility of consolidated freight deliveries: Urban logistics experiments in the City of Paris, Paris as an urban logistics laboratory (pdf, 171.4 kB)

2015 - Heitz A.

IFSTTAR, France

More efficient siting of warehouse and distribution activity: Logistics Spatial Patterns in Paris and the Paris Basin (pdf, 239 kB)

2015 - Heitz, A., Dablanc L.

IFSTTAR, France

Parking for Freight Vehicles in dense Urban Centers - The Issue of Delivery Areas in Paris (pdf, 276.2 kB)

2015 - Adrien Béziat  

IFSTTAR, France

Using proxies to describe the metropolitan freight landscape (pdf, 339.4 kB)

2014 - Giuliano

University of Southern California

Trucks, Trains, Tugs and Tubes: A Model for More-Efficient Collection and Transfer of Solid Waste, the Predominant Form of First-Mile Urban Freight (pdf, 307.7 kB)

2014 - B. Miller, J. Spertu

University Transportation Research Center City University of New York

The good Impacts of Biking for Goods: Lessons from Paris city (pdf, 716.7 kB)

2014 - Martin Koning, Alison Conway

Efficiencies in Freight and Passenger Routing and Scheduling (pdf, 246.8 kB)

2014 - Maged Dessouky

University of Southern California

The Design and Evaluation of Impact of Traffic Light Priority for Trucks on Traffic Flow (pdf, 274.4 kB)

2014 - Petros Ioannou

University of Southern California

The Freight Landscape: Using Secondary Data Sources to Describ Metropolitan Freight Flows (pdf, 623 kB)

2014 - Genevieve Giuliano, Sanggyun Kang, Quan Yuan, Nathan Hutson

University of Southern California

The Urban Freight Landscape Atlas (pdf, 989.6 kB)

2013 - Laetitia Dablanc, Genevieve Giuliano, Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Sangbeom Seo

FINAL DELIVERIES FOR ONLINE SHOPPING: the rise of pickup points in France (pdf, 1.3 MB)

2013 - Morganti, E., Dablanc L., Fortin F., Gouvernal, E.

IFSTTAR, France