City Logistics Workshop and Innovation Day

Event enmarcat dins del projecte PubCityLog i del projecte GLIMS.

La jornada reunirà investigadors/es i professionals per debatre els principals reptes i innovacions en la distribució urbana de mercaderies.

Lloc

Edifici C, Sala C0.6
Rambla del Poblenou, 154-156
08018 Barcelona
Espanya

Quan

24/04/2026

Organitza

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, URBANLOG (Urbanització, Comerç i Logística Sostenible) - UOC-DIGIT

Programa

9:30h Arrival

 

9:45h Institutional Welcome

Xavier Vilajosana - Vice-Rector for Research, Transfer and Entrepreneurship

 

SESSION 1. Replanning Urban Freight Distribution as a Public Service

 

PRESENTATION

10:00h Presentation: PubCityLog Project

Eduard Álvarez Palau - Professor and Co-Principal Investigator of the URBANLOG group (UOC-DIGIT) and Academic Director of the Master’s Degree in Logistics Management

 

 

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL EXPERIENCES

10:15h The Failure of LEZs in French Cities as a Public Policy Tool, but the Rapid Increase in Decarbonized Delivery Vehicles Nonwithstanding

Laetitia Dablanc - Director of Research at the University Gustave Eiffel and Logistics City Chair

 

10:45h Where Goods Meet People: A Conceptual Framework Integrating Urban Freight Transport into Land use and Public Space

Heleen Buldeo Rai - Assistant professor at the Mobilise research group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

 

11:15h COFFEE BREAK

 

11:30h Fueling Change for Sustainability? The Role of Society and Public Administrations in Promoting Zero-Emission Delivery Initiatives

Maryna Chepurna - Assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (UOC)

 

11:50h Barcelona’s Urban Freight Distribution Strategy (E-DUM)

Lídia Padrós - Head of Transport Projects in Barcelona Regional

 

12:10h New Urban Freight Distribution System of Metro Madrid

Rafa Villa - Head of Logistics in Metro Madrid

 

 

PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP

12:30h Rethinking the Role of Public Administrations in the Provision of Sustainable Logistics Services and Infrastructure

 

13:30h LUNCH

 

SESSION 2. Innovative Research Approaches to City Logistics

 

14:15h Presentation: GLIMS Project

Cristian Castillo Gutiérrez - Professor and Co-Principal Investigator of the URBANLOG group (UOC-DIGIT) and Academic Director of the Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management

 

POSTERS & FLASH TALKS

14:30h Logistics Sprawl in Spain

Eduard Álvarez Palau - Professor and Co-Principal Investigator of the URBANLOG group (UOC-DIGIT) and Academic Director of the Master’s Degree in Logistics Management

 

14:35h A Review of Rural Logistics

Zahra Ghasemizad - PhD student in Law, Politics and Economics (UOC)

 

14:40h Transport Infrastructure and Economic Activity: A ML Approach

Ali Maddahi - PhD student in Society, Technology and Culture (UOC)
Carles Méndez Ortega - Associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (UOC)

 

14:45h Agency Chains and Labour Explotation in Last Mile Food Delivery Platforms

Iu Tusell Vila-Abadal - Assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (UOC)

 

14:50h UFD&USD: Adaptative Regulation and Agent Classification for Sustainable Urban Logistics in Barcelona

Mariana Laterrade - Research assistant at UrbanLog (UOC-DIGIT)

 

14:55h De las Restricciones a la Optimización: Un Análisis Comparativo de las Prioridades del Transporte de Mercancías Urbanas en Contextos no Metropolitanos

Marta Viu Roig - Associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (UOC)

 

15:00h El Tratamiento de la Distribución Urbana de Mercancías en los Planes de Movilidad Urbana Sostenible de la Provincia de Barcelona

J. Miguel Calero Jiménez - Research assistant at UrbanLog (UOC-DIGIT)

 

15:05h Disposición a Pagar por Entregas Sostenibles en España

Carmen Pacheco Bernal - Associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (UOC)

 

15:10h Hacia una Nueva Geografía del Transporte de la Logística de Última Milla B2C en Grandes Áreas Metropolitanas

Thierry Otero Romero - Research assistant at UrbanLog and PhD student in Business Administration (UOC)

 

15:15h HorecaHUB-BCN: Zonas inteligentes para la optimización de la distribución HORECA en Barcelona

Cristian Castillo Gutiérrez - Associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (UOC)

 

LAST REMARKS AND Q/A

15:30h Q/A - Eduard Álvarez Palau

 

16:00h End of the session

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