Advances in Planning for Scalable Urban Delivery Systems with Emerging Technologies

This event is sponsored by FAMU-FSU Engineering Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.

Abstract: The urban delivery landscape has changed significantly in the last few years and will continue to evolve with emerging technologies related to automation and real time data, along with new business models for parcel and food delivery. This talk covers the challenges facing both the delivery providers and the public agencies having to regulate the last mile. Advances include new fleet sizing models for sidewalk delivery robots, planning models for evaluating infrastructure needs for at-scale deployment of various delivery systems, which include microhubs, parcel lockers, cargo bike lanes, and battery swapping or charging stations for e-bikes and/or electric delivery vehicles, among others. The talk will lay out these challenges, present some recent advances in solutions, and highlight potential “low hanging fruit” for new collaborative innovations.

Joseph Chow

Institute Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Urban Engineering

Deputy Director, C2SMARTER Center

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Speaker Bio: Joseph Chow is an Institute Associate Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Civil and Urban Engineering Department with affiliations at CUSP and Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. Chow is an NSF CAREER award recipient, a former Canada Research Chair, and the cofounding Deputy Director of the C2SMART University Transportation Center at NYU. He is a former Chair of the Subcommittee on Route Choice & Spatiotemporal Behavior at TRB and former TSL Cluster Chair and elected Urban Transportation SIG Chair at INFORMS. He has published over 100 journal articles since 2010 and is a current editor for three journals: Transportation Research Part B, Service Science, and Transportation Research Record. Dr. Chow received his PhD (‘10) at UC Irvine and his MEng (’01) and BS (’00) at Cornell University. He has a PE license from NY.