METRANS Research Project

Publications of METRANS Research Briefs.

More about METRANS can be found here.

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