Published on May 30, 2023
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) program has awarded a $2 million grant to a cross-sectoral team comprised of UW’s UPUrban Freight Lab and Open Mobility Foundation, and led by the Seattle Department of Transportation.
The award will support implementing data-driven curb space management initiatives to improve access to curb space, reduce congestion, and promote more sustainable forms of goods delivery in the final mile of goods delivery.
The project — titled Last-Mile Freight Curb Access: Digitizing the Last Mile of Urban Goods to Improve Curb Access and Digitialization — uses a combination of digital technologies and targeted outreach to test different policies to improve the existing commercial vehicle permit program.
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Originally written by the Urban Freight Lab for the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center.