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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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Join TransportNET’s Urban Logistics Summer School at University of Antwerp, 15-26 August 2022
Get yourself immersed in the world of Urban Logistics: from basic concepts to special topics. The VREF support the event in granting 5 applications from low and middle income countries. -
MoM Webinar: Transit Planning and Resident Behavior: New Research
Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director from Meeting of the Minds (MoM) interviewed in the end of August 2020 Manuel Santana Palacios about his recent research as a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley at the ... -
New Dates for the 4th VREF Conference on Urban Freight: “Urban freight and liveable cities: Interactions between planning, design and business for scalable innovations”
The Urban Freight Platform thanks for the abstracts but decided to postpone the conference to Tuesday 23 to Thursday 25 March 2021 due to the ongoing uncertainty concerning travel and attendance at ev... -
Open Call for Applied Research Proposals in Long Distance Road and Rail and Urban Transport for Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Inclusive Transport
An Open Call inviting Research Suppliers to submit proposals to provide research services under the DFID-funded High Volume Transport (HVT) Applied Research Programme has launched.
Research Briefs
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Urban Freight in Delhi: Characteristics and Mobility Restrictions
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
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
Invitation to submit an Expression of interest 
Pdf, 457 kB.
Deadline: 1 October 2022
- Fourth Call for Research Proposals Pdf, 1.3 MB.
Closed: 1 September 2022
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- Catalysing Curriculum Change at Universities in SSA 2022 Pdf, 1.3 MB.
Deadline extended to 1 Nov. 2022
Deadline: 31 October 2022
MOBILITY GRANT 2022- MAC-MG 2022 Pdf, 447.1 kB.
Deadline: 31 October 2022
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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).
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