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with ever-growing benefits to society

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Healthcare logistics Thor Balkhed

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

Construction worker and machine

Brains & Bricks – Centre for Excellence in Construction Supply Chain Management – B2

Brains & Bricks – shortly named B2 – is a Centre for Excellence in Construction Supply Chain Management.
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Transport Analytics

We are currently working with data from stationary radar sensors which measure speed and flow of traffic, GPS data from vehicles driving around urban areas, and mobile phone location data extracted from the mobile phone network.
Vallastaden 2017 - Construction logistics

Construction Logistics and Supply Chain Management

We are researching how to create long-term sustainability and effectiveness in the built environment with a focus on logistics, digitalization, and resource-efficient construction.

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.
Tank station for the fuel HVO.

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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