The urban experiment

March 14, 2018 12:51 PM

The Urban Freight Lab studies traffic at, as it were, the capillary level. Package delivery, trash pickup, loading zones, parking or not.
posted by clew (1 comment total)

While this is a great program (so says this freight planner), it's a lot to parse as a single link with a brief description.

That said, it seems I have more reading material for an upcoming flight. But on first glance, it looks like their most recent study has the same issue as so many freight studies - it focuses on major cities, which is great if you live in one of the top 20-30 big cities, but for the other 19,000+ cities and towns in the US, the lessons are limited, because the concerns for freight congestion just aren't there. /rural, western freight planner rant

That said, I'm interested in the research and efforts from Washington State, and to some degree the University of Washington's Urban Freight Lab, because they're not just talking about big cities.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:37 PM on March 14, 2018 [1 favorite]