City Logistics Workshop and Innovation Day

Event framed within the PubCityLog and GLIMS projects. 

The conference will bring together researchers and professionals to debate the main challenges and innovations in urban freight distribution

Venue

Building C, Room C0.6
Rambla del Poblenou, 154-156
08018 Barcelona
Espanya

When

24/04/2026

Organized by

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

Program

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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