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Registration is now available for the October 16 Talking Freight Seminar on Urban Freight Transportation - Selected Presentations from the METRANS International Urban Freight Conference Date/Time: October 16, 2013 1:00 - 2:30 pm EDT Registration: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/fpd/talking_freight/index.htm Description: Freight transportation issues and needs often have a particularly significant impact in urban areas. Urban areas are often the locations for manufacturing, distribution, or commercial retail-related freight generators. Perhaps even more significantly, urban areas are almost always significant freight transportation destination locations, due to the high volume of freight products used and consumed in those areas. The high volumes of freight transportation activity that takes place in urban areas and the need to better understand the needs and impacts of urban freight movements has inspired a significant amount of research on urban freight transportation. One of the leading centers for urban freight transportation research, the METRANS Transportation Center in southern California, sponsors an every-other year international conference focused on presenting research in the urban freight transportation field. This webinar will include three presentations given at the 2013 METRANS International Urban Freight Conference. The three presentations will particularly focus on industrial and commercial freight development and understanding those types of development on the transportation system. "The Geography of Urban Freight: A City Logistics Topology" This presentation will examine how freight development has occurred in different urban areas around the world, and examine the spatial differences between the types of freight-related development. * Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Hofstra University "Industrial Space Demand and Freight Transportation Activity: Exploring the Connection" This presentation will examine the factors that influence industrial space demand and how those factors influence freight transportation demand in urban areas. * Christopher Lindsey, Northwestern University "Identifying Urban Large Freight Traffic Generators: Opportunities for City Logistics Strategies" This presentation will examine the impacts of large urban freight generators. The presentation will focus on two types of large freight generators - large, individual business generators and conurbations of small businesses generators housed in the same building or campus of buildings. * Dr. Miguel Jaller, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute If you have not yet participated in Talking Freight, I encourage you to do so. These monthly seminars, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, are held via web conference, which means that you view the PowerPoint presentations over the Internet while listening to the presenters over your computer or the telephone. There is no cost involved and you do not have to leave your desk to participate. More information about Talking Freight is available at http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/fpd/talking_freight/index.htm Links to past presentations and recordings are available on http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/freightplanning/talking.htm. Talking Freight seminars are eligible for 1.5 AICP Certification Maintenance Credits (for AICP members). In order to receive credit, you must attend the full seminar and login to the seminar with your full name or type your full name into the chat area during the seminar if you are in a room with a group of people. Visit the AICP web site <http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/exit.cfm?link=http://www.planning.org/cm/> for more information about AICP Certification Maintenance Credits. If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Symoun, Leidos, 703-318-4267 or [log in to unmask] Jennifer Symoun | Leidos Deputy Program Manager | Transportation Solutions and Technology Applications Division phone: 703.318.4267 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> | leidos.com We are now Leidos. Please note my new email address.