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:
Starting October 2023 colleagues within the VREF MAC Network offer an opportunity to sharpen your skills on GIS for transport and logistics. 30 hours comprehensive, certified and asynchronous training will be offered via a free online course, sponsored by VREF. A short practical information follows below and full information is available in THIS FLYER (pdf).
2023 is the fourth year of SLOCAT-VREF Young Leaders in Sustainable Transport programme. You can read more about the program below, but first – let us introduce the five participants who have been selected in this fourth round, through a competitive programme: Carol Masingi Carol Masingi (She/Her) is a PhD researcher from the University of Groningen in
Shared mobility and informal transportation address mobility and employment needs of people around the world. Data has a critical role to play in bringing visibility to this important sector and can help improve access, environmental sustainability, economic development, and better governance. A review by Agile City Partners took stock of efforts on collecting data on
We hope to see you in Cape Town Next Year – during the first African Transport Research Conference, taking place 5-7 March. The conference will be arranged and hosted by VREF and Center for Transport Studied at University of Cape Town. The deadline for the Call for Abstracts has been extended, to 1 August. See
”Connecting Informal Transport to the Climate Agenda: Key Opportunities for Action” is a new paper prepared by World Resources Institute (WRI) with support from Informal and Shared Mobility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Research Program, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF). Read full version here (pdf).
A stakeholder workshop will be held in Dar es Salaam and online 17 January, to disseminate project findings from The VREF funded MAC research project Mapping unequal accessibility to socioeconomic and cultural opportunities in informal urban settlements across two sub-Sahara African Cities. See full program and info on how to register by clicking the link below:
A new partnership of Walk21 and Volvo Research and Education Foundation (VREF) will support up to 56 national governments with the development of effective national walking policies that deliver improvements to health and well-being, mitigate climate change, and reduce road fatalities. The policy training was announced on 15th November 2022, during the event titled The Role of
Robert Ambunda and Lucia Game have been awarded the prestigious Lee Schipper Scholarship Award for transformative research proposals to challenge conventional wisdom. Robert Ambunda, also known within VREF:s MAC network, is the lead researcher in the Mobility Lab at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Namibia. He is also one of
The SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport and the VREF have now achieved their third round of the SLOCAT-VREF Young Leaders in Sustainable Transport programme. Here are the five selected Young Leaders! The SLOCAT Partnership and the VREF launched in May 2019 the Young Leaders in Sustainable Transport programme. The programme builds bridges between
