The International Urban Freight Conference (I-NUF) is the premier biennial conference that addresses all aspects of city logistics and goods movement in the world’s metropolitan areas. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners in urban freight, supply chains, and logistics from around the world. It is a showcase for cutting-edge research and dynamic information-sharing and provides a forum for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to reimagine and guide the future of the industry.
Important Dates
November 11, 2024 Deadline for abstract submissions
November 25, 2024 Author notification of the decision on their abstract submission
January 15, 2025 Panel submission deadline
February 1, 2025 Deadline to submit full length paper to special issue
February 15, 2025 Deadline for discounted conference registration
Program Committee Co-chairs
| Marlon Boarnet | Director, METRANS Transportation Consortium; Professor, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California |
| Maged Dessouky | Dean’s Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California; Associate Director of Research, METRANS, University of Southern California |
Track Chairs
| Topic 1 – Local / last mile pickup and delivery | Laetitia Dablanc, Ph.D., Professor, LVMT Center of Cities, Mobility, Transport, University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France |
| Topic 2 – Demand management and spatial analysis | Alison Conway, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Grove School of Engineering, The City College of New York Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Maritime Business Administration, Texas A&M University of Galveston |
| Topic 3 – Freight modeling and planning | Maged Dessouky, Ph.D., Dean’s Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California; Associate Director of Research, METRANS, University of Southern California |
| Topic 4 – Technology and automation | Petros Ioannou, Ph.D., A.V. “Bal” Balakrishnan Chair; University Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of California; Associate Director of Research, METRANS, University of Souther California Ketan Savla, Ph.D., John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair in Civil Engineering; Associate Professor, Viterbi School o f Engineering, University of Southern California |
| Topic 5 – Sustainability | Marlon Boarnet, Ph.D., Director, METRANS Transportation Center; Professor, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California Genevieve Giuliano, Ph.D., Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government; Distinguished Professor, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California. |
| Topic 6 – Best practices / Case studies | Thomas O’Brien, Ph.D., Associate Dean, College of Professional and Continuing Education, California State University, Long Beach |
| Topic 7 – Labor issues and workforce development | Tyler Reeb, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for International Trade & Transportation, California State University, Long Beach |
Contact Lena Wild at lena.wild@csulb.edu for any inquiries regarding abstract submission and Dolores Rodriguez at rodr549@usc.edu for any other inquiries.