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Project

Urban logistics and economic geography.

Background: The digital revolution gave rise to an on-demand economy characterized by an increasing user-driven focus of the private sector. This is particularly visible in the transport sector, where the surge in e-commerce enabled the promise of ever faster, cheaper, and more personalized deliveries and micromobility potentially holds the key towards a more sustainable modal split. While these developments can bridge some existing inequalities such as food deserts or transport injustice, they may in turn give rise to new inequalities and constraints. These constraints imply a revaluation of traditional economic and transport models is needed. Objective: The proposed methodology, financing plan, education, and dissemination should stimulate the growth of a research group on urban transportation within the framework of economic geography, generating knowledge to support resilient transport and economic systems and regions. Methodology: Three research tracks support this objective. In RT1 tackles the question, "How does the rise of e-commerce provide opportunities for and synergies between retail and logistics?" RT2 focuses on passenger transport and centers around the question "What is the spatial impact of new modes of mobility?". RT3 is of a more methodological nature and seeks to "Maximize the relevance of network theory to analyze transport and economic systems."
Date:1 Oct 2022 →  Today
Keywords:ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, URBAN LOGISTICS, TRANSPORT ECONOMICS
Disciplines:Transport economics, Economic geography, Geography of mobility and transportation