United States-European Commission Urban Freight Twinning Initiative: Compendium of Project Summaries
Overview of Second Annual Urban Freight Roundtable at 2017 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

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Policy

Research

Other International

Singapore Urban Freight Study

The research team is developing an integrated framework for (i) data collection, (ii) modelling, and (iii) decisionmaking to facilitate the design and evaluation of policies related to urban freight and logistics. This project uses sensing technologies in freight surveys (i.e., commodity flows, vehicle and driver surveys), and data will be used to develop agent-based behavioral simulation models.

Policy case studies include freight consolidation, centralized receiving stations at retail malls, provision of heavy vehicle parking in the city, and predicting freight trips with future land-use changes.

Project Type

Research and pilots

Period of Performance

2016 - 2019

Project Site(s)

Singapore

Website

http://mobility.sutd.edu.sg/loadingbays

Contact

Lynette Cheah
Assistant Professor
Singapore University of Technology and Design
+65 6499-4740
Lynette@sutd.edu.sg

Challenges Addressed

• Freight traffic congestion in dense city centers
• Land and freight infrastructure planning

Expected Outcomes

Contribution to freight survey methods and local freight policy recommendations.

Stakeholder Involvement

The project is carried out by researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Future Mobility group, and the University of Napoli Frederico II.

Partnering government agencies include the Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority, Land Transport Authority, JTC, and the Infocomm and Media Development Authority.