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Abstract

The delivery of goods within cities is a major source of traffic and pollution, with energy inefficient vehicles from different carrier companies competing for both parking spaces and business. Freight transport accounts for 16% of all road vehicle activity in UK cities, and last-mile urban freight particularly contributes to traffic congestion and poor air quality. The Freight Traffic Control 2050 Project seeks to help urban freight carriers understand the way they plan routes, coordinate pickups, and deliver packages in cities, and how they can adapt to urban areas which continue to grow and sprawl. This talk will cover some of the techniques we utilise to help visualise and understand the patterns and inefficiencies of the current state of affairs. Combining data science, visualisation, simulation, and on-the-ground surveys of delivery systems, project members are working to help carriers adapt their practices to the modern, connected city.

Speaker

Dr. Sarah Wise, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. She previously worked in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at UCL, and completed her PhD in the Department of Computational Social Science at George Mason University in the United States. She describes herself as a geospatial computational social scientist specialising in spatially explicit agent-based models (ABM), in particular behaviourally-influenced movement on networks.