VREF Conference on Urban Freight 2018

Konferens

The 3rd VREF Conference on Urban Freight will present current issues influencing urban freight research and discuss the complexity of designing urban space and managing flows for liveable cities.

Current issues influencing urban freight research (17 October)
Parallel sessions discussing a range of current issues in urban freight research: A series of presentations of research papers on the basis of submitted abstracts (in oral and poster form) in short presentations in a number of parallel streams.

We anticipate about 70 presentations including posters during the first day of the conference. A wide range of topics will be covered including: planning, modelling, new technologies, changing behaviour of stakeholders. In addition, there will be case studies on sectors including: construction, e-commerce and food retailing. The city and the regional dimension together with the relevance of links to ports will also feature in some of the presentations.

Designing urban space and managing flows - the importance of freight for livable cities (18 & 19 October)
Invited presentations, panels and break-out sessions discussing innovative solutions that consider the perspectives from authorities, transport operators, retailers, architects, planners, other industry stakeholders and researchers.