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with ever-growing benefits to society

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City logistics, environmental logistics, healthcare logistics and construction logistics are some of the areas in which LiU researchers are leading the field. LiU has, for example, Europe’s first professor in environmental logistics. Logistics is a growing research area that is acquiring ever-growing significance in society.

Examples of research in the field are more efficient train and public transport timetables, airport logistics, how goods can be transported into city centres in the most environmentally sensitive manner, improved construction logistics to give higher efficiency and lower costs, and improved and optimised models for the simulation of such phenomena as traffic flows.

Efficient logistics also deals with questions of management and attitudes, one example of which is the branch of environmental logistics that focusses on how systems can be controlled and designed to be more sustainable and have a lower impact on the environment. At LiU, logistics research is coupled with research into quality management.

Construction logistics as a research area is described below.

Research

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Collaboration and working methods for a fossil-free, resilient and competitive transport system

Collaboration between transport companies and transport-buying enterprises (e.g., retailers, industries, and municipalities) is crucial for a resilient and fossil-free transportation system.
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Centre for Business Model Innovation

The centre for business model innovation (CBMI) takes a starting point in the role of businesses in society, and the way in which business models are changed and renewed over time in order to adapt to societal and business changes.
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The transition towards electrified freight transport

A transition to electrified freight transport is seen as a large and important step in reducing the freight sector’s impact on the climate. We are studying transport system from different perspectives.

News

Henrik Johansson.

Coordinated transport benefits both the recipients and society

A better urban environment, more efficient transport, and fewer disturbances from many deliveries. A new thesis shows that shared freight terminals can make huge and important differences – both for the recipients and society in general.
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Difficult to create sustainable transport chains

Both transport companies and trading companies have high ambitions with respect to sustainable transport. But researchers at LiU and Linnaeus University have shown that several challenges remain before the entire transport chain becomes sustainable.
Magnus Blinge sitting on a bench with a cell phone in his hands.

His mission: to promote transport research

“Östergötland is a hub in Swedish transport research, with both a broad range and cutting-edge projects. But co-ordination must be improved, particularly when facing major calls for research funding” says Magnus Blinge, adjunct professor at LiU.

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