Smart Freight Centre
Smart Freight Symposium
Faculty Club 41 Willcocks St., TorontoAgenda for November 4, 2019 Smart Freight Symposium. Parking at U of T. Registration by invitation only.
Alison Conway presents “Freight and Complete Streets: Moving Goods in Shared Urban Space”
Online EventThe Smart Freight Centre Leadership Series presents special guest speaker Professor Alison Conway of the City College of New York on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. EST. All are welcome to attend this free webinar. Register here on Eventbrite. Description Often, freight operations are overlooked or explicitly de-prioritized in the early stages of Complete […]
Smart Freight Symposium 2020
Online EventThis event has ended. Details and resources from the 2020 Smart Freight Symposium are posted on the Smart Freight Centre website. The Smart Freight Centre presents its 2nd annual Smart Freight Symposium, hosted by the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University. Building on the success of last year’s symposium, the Smart Freight Symposium 2020 […]
Miguel Jaller presents “Who shops online and how sustainable is the delivery process?”
Online EventThe Smart Freight Centre Leadership Seminar Series presents special guest speaker Professor Miguel Jaller of the University of California Davis on Friday, February 12, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EST. All are welcome to attend this free online webinar. Register here on Eventbrite. Description In recent years, the rapid adoption of omnichannel distribution strategies has dramatically changed how […]
Professor Genevieve Giuliano presents “Heavy duty trucks: The challenge of getting to zero”
Online EventProfessor Genevieve Giuliano is Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government, andDirector of the METRANS Transportation Center at USC Price. About this lecture This research considers strategies that will reduce truck emissions and achieve public health and GHG reduction targets. Freight shipments in urban areas are increasing throughout the world as a result […]
Lynette Cheah presents “Carbon footprint assessment of cross-border e-commerce shipping options”
Online via ZoomThe Smart Freight Centre Leadership Seminar Series presents special guest speaker Professor Lynette Cheah of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) on Friday, October 15, 2021, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST. All are welcome to attend this free online webinar via Zoom. Join at: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87624482177. Description In the bid to stay competitive, online […]
2021 Smart Freight Symposium November 19 & 26
Online via ZoomJoin us online to hear the latest about post-pandemic recovery in the freight sector and urban and regional freight innovation in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Building on the success of last year’s symposium, Smart Freight Centre’s Symposium 2021 will feature speakers from government and industry leaders and non-profits, as well as updates from […]
Teodor Gabriel Crainic presents “Urban freight transportation and logistics”
Online EventPresented by the Smart Freight Centre Freight Leaders Series. All are welcome to attend this free online webinar. If any specific accommodations are needed, please contact smartfreight@utoronto.ca as early as possible. Please join us for Q & A following the presentation. Register here on Eventbrite. Abstract Urban freight transport stands for the movement of vehicles carrying goods […]
Equity, diversity and inclusion in freight transportation: A panel discussion
Online EventInspired by the desire to create an equal and inclusive work environment where individual differences are valued, many government and private sector organizations have initiated practices to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion. To provide examples of such initiatives in practice, Sophia Sniegowski Begidzhanov (The Musket Transport Ltd. and CHET), Melissa Magder (Region of Peel), and […]
José Holguín-Veras presents “Freight transportation policy and planning in the fight against climate change: The role of connected trucks, land use, and other tools nobody talks about”
Online via ZoomThe obvious changes in the climate—exemplified by former “hundred year weather events” taking place every other year—are adding tremendous urgency to efforts to reduce the emissions produced by mobile sources. In this context, reducing the freight transportation’s environmental footprint is an essential, though extremely hard to achieve, component of sustainability efforts. To a great extent, this […]