On 18-20 October 2023, the VREF Conference on Urban Freight will be organized for the fifth time. The event is organized by Urban Freight Platform and focus is on presenting future urban freight transport research, what opportunities and challenges are there?
Overview
- Date:Starts 18 October 2023, 08:00Ends 20 October 2023, 13:00
- Seats available:180
- Location:Uni3, Pumpgatan 1, 417 55 Gothenburg, Sweden and Lindholmen Science Park, Lindholmspiren 5, 402 78 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Language:English
The Urban Freight Platform invites you to register for the 5th VREF Conference on Urban Freight:
We are pleased to invite you to register for the 5th VREF Conference on Urban Freight. The theme for the 2023 Conference will be “Future urban freight transport research: Opportunities and challenges.”
Urban freight transport research has grown in recent years. The 5th VREF Conference on Urban Freight will focus on answering the following questions: How can this growth be maintained and developed?
How to strengthen the links between research and implementation?
Program Overview
Day 1, October 18th | Day 2, October 19th | Day 3, October 20th |
|---|---|---|
| Current state and research opportunities | Opportunities and challenges ahead | Opportunities and challenges ahead |
| Registration | Registration | Registration |
| 08:00-12:00 Presentation & Posters | 08:00-12:00 Welcome & Introduction, Plenary sessions | 08:00-12:00 Plenary sessions & Breakout sessions |
| 12:00-13:00 Lunch break | 12:00-13:00 Lunch break | 12:00-13:00 End of the conference |
| 13:00-17:00 Presentation & Posters | 13:00-17:00 Breakout sessions | |
| 17:00 After Work | 19:00 Conference dinner |
Registration and details
The conference is free of charge and will take place from the 18th to the 20th of October.
Day 1 (October 18th) will be at Uni3, Pumpgatan 1, 417 55 Göteborg
Day 2 & 3 (October 19th and 20th) will be at Lindholmen Science Park, Lindholmspiren 5, 402 78 Göteborg.
Please register for the conference here and check regularly the conference website for updates. As the registration link was already sent to presenters (who submitted abstracts relating to Day 1) if you have already registered you do not need to register again.
Organizer
The Urban Freight Platform (UFP) is an initiative supported by Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) on urban freight research based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The UFP works as a facilitator
of academic research on urban freight within the context of the logistics competence centre Northern LEAD at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology.
