METRANS Research Project
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
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
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
CALL FOR NOMINATION FOR the Håkan Frisinger Award for Excellence in Transportation Research
The VREF invites universities located in Sweden to nominate candidates for The Håkan Frisinger Award (Håkan Frisingers pris till framstående transportforskare) and apply for a VREF Visiting Researcher Grant for the nominated candidate.
Open for nomination until 2021-03-15. Read more... (pdf, 233.7 kB)
2nd CALL FOR PROJECTS WITHIN THE MAC-PROGRAM
The VREF invites Sub-Saharan based researchers with expertise on sustainable and equitable
mobility and access or related areas, and strong interest in carrying out interdisciplinary research. Open for application until 2020-09-29
MOBILITY GRANT 2020 - MAC-MG 2020
The VREF invites PhD students and advanced master students from Sub-Saharan African (SSA) universities to apply for a Mobility Grant (MG) to support a visit to another SSA university with up to SEK 25 000.
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.
Each year the Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research awards a scholarship to a prominent researcher.
Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarships for Sustainable Transport and Energy Efficiency targets supporting the momentum of Lee Schipper’s contribution to the international policy dialogue in these fields.
This yearly award is aimed at supporting young individual researchers and students in is pursuance.
Call extended to April 30, 2020 due to COVID19.
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.
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