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“E-commerce is much better for CO2 emissions than store retail because there’s no shopping trips, there’s no heating of stores.”
Are you interested in urban logistics as warehousing and transportation? What do you think what skills urban planners are missing currently? How can we better educate the upcoming generations to face challenges?
Interview with Laetitia Dablanc, Professor at University Gustave Eiffel. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban logistics and e-commerce, automation, urban optimalisation, missing skills for urban planners, and many more. So, let’s start with a proper introduction.
Laetitia Dablanc is an urban planner and Professor at the University Gustave Eiffel in Paris, where she heads the Logistics City Chair. Her research focuses on freight transportation, urban logistics, on-demand delivery platforms, freight policies and spatial issues. She holds a PhD from École nationale des ponts et chaussées and a Master’s from Cornell, after initial training in policy analysis and economics at Sciences Po Paris. She has authored numerous publications on urban logistics and regularly advises agencies including the World Bank, ITF/OECD and UNCTAD.
Find out more about Laetitia through these links:
- Laetitia Dablanc on LinkedIn
- Laetitia Dablanc at the University Gustave Eiffel
- Laetitia Dablanc on Google Scholar
- LVMT (Laboratoire Ville Mobilité Transport) website
- LVMT (Laboratoire Ville Mobilité Transport) on LinkedIn
- Laetitia Dablanc at LVMT
- Chaire Logistics City on LinkedIn
Connected episodes you might be interested in:
- No.451R – Defining the interface between city logistics and urban design: a systematic literature review
- No.452 – Interview with Ron van Duin about urban freight
- No.465R – The state of sustainable urban last-mile freight planning in the United States
- No.466 – Interview with Anne Goodchild about last mile delivery
- No.473R – Fulfilment of last-mile urban logistics for sustainable and inclusive smart cities: a case study conducted in Portugal
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