GITMob meeting no. 9

This session took place on 9 May 2019 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was City logistics – an introductory overview of urban freight distribution, presented by Bruno Oliveira , a Ph.D. student of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems of FEUP.

Abstract

City logistics plays an important role in creating efficient, environmentally friendly, and safe urban freight transport. Several logistics measures have been proposed to address the negative externalities of urban freight distribution. We present a brief overview of these measures, with a particular focus on the logistics and transport organization of urban distribution systems.

Short Bio

Bruno Oliveira received an MSc in Operations Research and statistics in 2012, by the Faculty of Sciences – University of Lisbon. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate for the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems – MIT Portugal Program. His research interests include logistics, operations research, optimization methods, transportation systems.