As the world’s cities continue to grow and change, freight transportation plays a more prominent role in the prosperity and livability of urbanized areas. For persons in policy, system user, planning, and advocacy roles, access to top research treatments of urban freight transportation is an invaluable asset to better integrate freight facilities and operations with community goals.
The Transportation Research Board’s Urban Freight Transportation Committee is responsible for monitoring and evaluating urban freight transportation research efforts. Based on their intimate familiarity with this topic, the committee members and friends have recognized a set of essential, completed research papers, books, and websites that represent exemplary and groundbreaking treatments of urban freight transportation. These seminal resources offer profound insights and innovative techniques that form the foundations of the discipline and can be particularly useful to practitioners and those just beginning to consider urban freight transportation.
Important, useful resources have been carefully compiled by the Urban Freight Transportation Committee. The committee maintains and updates the resources periodically. The resources are grouped into five (5) files by type of reference:
To recommend an addition to the Urban Freight Transportation Committee’s list of valued research products and resources or to receive the resources in an EndNote Library file, contact the committee’s Resource Coordinator.
For the purposes of educating the general public and young people about urban freight transportation, the Urban Freight Transportation Committee has provided significant input and content for the Wikipedia page for urban freight distribution. Wikipedia is a widely used resource and reference tool, and the urban freight distribution page is intended to provide a broad and balanced overview for those persons just beginning to explore a very important and captivating topic.