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Quantitative models and methods are developed for analysing, designing and evaluating logistics system with respect to collaborative transports among companies, e.g. in city logistics and in forestry transports.

The Division of Logistics and Quality Management strives to be the most demanded experts and to educate the country's most popular students in logistics and quality management.

The ongoing digitalization changes how people live their lives, in their homes and in society. Changes do not only regard how we adopt new technologies, like digital sharing platforms.

Viktor Werner has been awarded ScAIEM Award for Best Thesis in Industrial Management for his research on electrified goods transportation. His work highlights how companies interact with and influence the transition to sustainable transport systems.

The demand for urban freight is increasing at the same time as local and regional sustainability goals aim for more sustainable cities – and these two things don’t always go hand in hand.

Climate smart transport systems is a highly relevant and fast-developing area, both in research and in practice. Our research asks how logistics systems should be designed and run in order to be more sustainable.

Mary Catherine Osman, a doctoral student in sustainable logistics, is one of the recipients of the ICHCA-award 2023.

More sustainable transport – how is it possible? Using new technology and fuel from renewable sources is not enough: how the transport is organised and how consumers act are just as important. Do you really need to have these goods tomorrow?

Electric trucks are the future, don’t you agree? And yet there are so few of them on our roads and in our cities, while goods transports keep increasing. LiU’s researchers are trying to find out why.

The retailers want it, so do the distributors. The consumers also say that they want it. Even so, the introduction of climate-friendly deliveries for e-commerce is proceeding slowly. A new study analyses the barriers that hinder development.