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The paper is based on work carried out as part of the Green Logistics project. The paper provides a review of urban freight studies that have taken place in the UK over approximately a thirty year period from the early 1970s to the present (this is the first attempt at such a review in the UK as far as the authors are aware). Coverage of both goods collection and delivery vehicle activity and service vehicle activity is included. This review covers the survey techniques used, as well as the survey results obtained. Comparisons are made between the results of studies from the 1970s and those carried out in the last decade in order to gain insight to changes in urban freight transport operations.

The data provided in the studies reviewed is extremely important as it provides insight into urban freight operations that is unavailable from any other data source, including national freight surveys conducted by government. However, until now, the results of these studies have not been widely disseminated or compared.

Freight demand models appear different from passenger models due to the distinction between the subject of the transport and the decision-makers as well as the multitude of agents involved in freight transport. In this work the authors applied a tour-based model to simulate freight distribution. The tour-based approach ably reproduces the choice structure of freight transport: this approach simulates the dependences existing between successive trips of the same distribution channel.

"AZTESOL is AZ state affiliate of TESOL, the international professional organization for educators in the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages.
Mission: maintain forum for concerns affecting the ELL/ELT communitites and to create opportunities for professional development through advocacy, dissemination of information, and networking.
Four regions: Northern, Central, Southeast, and Southwest"

The National Local Technical Assistance Program Association (NLTAPA) is a not-for-profit organization representing and serving the 58 LTAP and TTAP member-Centers in the United States and Puerto Rico. All staff of member-Centers are entitled to association services and are eligible to participate in programs and to serve as committee members and officers.

The association's main objectives are to build awareness about LTAP/TTAP in the transportation community, assist FHWA with developing strategies for the program, and build the capacity of each Center to best meet the needs of its customers.

OLS (=Underground logistics System) is a system for automated freight transport at the airport Schiphol near Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Members of METRANS (USC/CSULB) Advisory Board

The research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education of Research examines the impact of B2C E-Commerce on transport in urban areas for the base year 2003. The impact analysis is based on empirical data which was derived from consumer survey. In addition, information about delivery traffic was acquired by B2C merchants and logistics providers. The results of this research project show that B2C E-Commerce leads to a reduction of private shopping traffic and an increase in delivery traffic. The future affects of B2C E-Commerce on transport depends primarily on the development of internet shopping and the adoption of delivery concepts. An understanding of the issues entailed in pick-up and delivery traffic can enable municipal traffic policies to counter the negative effects of B2C E-Commerce on traffic.

Decision makers in urban goods movement (UGM) typically need to assess the impact new policy interventions might have on freight distribution. The effects of policy changes are inextricably related with the extant regulatory framework that also influences the relationships among the various actors interacting along the supply chain. The operators commonly considered important, given the crucial role they play in UGM, are: retailers, transport providers, and own-account. Notwithstanding the admittedly important role that a detailed knowledge of these three agent categories has for a correct policy implementation there is a limited knowledge concerning the specific preferences and behavior of each agent-type. It is de facto assumed that retailers, own-account and transport providers have homogenous preferences and can be seamlessly treated. The upsurge of behavioral models and the acquisition of data necessary to predict goods and vehicle flows both under the current and, more importantly, under altered policy/regulatory conditions explains the progressive importance that is attributed to an agent-based perspective. This research reports the result of a stated ranking exercise conducted in the Limited Traffic Zone in 2009 in the city center of Rome focusing on retailers which demand freight transport services and play an important role in extended supply chains. This paper proposes a comparison between two different Multinomial Logit model specifications where non-linear effects for the variations of the levels of the attributes considered are studied and detected. A meaningful comparison between willingness to pay measures derived by the two model specifications is proposed so to avoid known scale problems. The results obtained are very interesting and meaningful from a policy perspective since they show potentially differentiated effects of the policy implemented in deep contrast with the, often assumed, homogenous effect hypothesis.

Freight movement is essential to the function of metropolitan areas, yet generates many externalities, including congestion, air pollution, noise, and greenhouse gas emissions. Metropolitan areas around the world are seeking ways to manage urban freight and its impacts. This paper presents the results from a comprehensive international survey of urban freight management strategies. The objective was to examine the effectiveness of alternative strategies and assess their transferability for U.S. implementation. Three categories were used to describe urban freight strategies: last-mile or first-mile deliveries and pickups, environmental mitigation, and trade node strategies. Many possibilities were found for the improved management of urban freight and its impacts; these possibilities included labeling and certification programs, incentive-based programs for voluntary emissions reduction, local land use and parking policies, and more stringent national fuel efficiency and emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks. More research is needed on intrametropolitan freight movements and on the effectiveness of existing policies and strategies.

This article is a response to a previous article stating that there is no significant differences between girls and boys in math achievement. The article says that women represent 57% of the nation's college population. They also say that although women are able and competent in the area of mathematics and engineering, they simply lack the interest to go into these high paying fields

The CITDs assist California business to expand internationally as well as help colleges become more globalized.

The California CITDs have offices across the state and provide a full range of trade assistance services to companies and individuals in the state of California. All services are either free or low cost. Whether you are new or experienced in export or import, small or large, CITD has experts and resources ready to help you. Our free or low-cost programs and services include one-on-one technical assistance and consulting, market research, training and educational programs, trade leads and special events. The CITD is a place to learn about international matchmaking events and other programs taking place both in California and abroad.

Key services include:
Deliver Export and Import Programs to Create Jobs
Inform Career Pathways and Technical Assistance
Expand Global Trade Curriculum and International Marketing Opportunities

Programs: Automated Export System (AES) & PcLink Compliance Training, Beauty Industry Market Access, CA Agricultural Export Training (CalAgX), CA State Trade and Export Promotion (CA STEP), Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP) Exam Preparation, Export Readiness Assessment (ERA), Global Logistics Program, Student Internship Program, Youth Entrepreneurship Program

Report highlights and analyzes how California will face a shortage of educated workers in all sectors. Research shows that migration of college graduates from other states and countries is too small.

The two-part California Regional Economies- Industry Clusters of Opportunity User Guide is designed to assist workforce and economic development professionals with the key steps needed to develop economic data sets that can be used to drive decision-making across many areas including strategic planning, investment decisions and policy changes. The guide provides a step-by-step methodology of how to identify industry clusters of opportunity, and how to use this information for planning, policy and program investment decision-making. Part I of the User Guide shows how to develop regional clusters of opportunity dataset and provides a step-by-step guide to analyzing and interpreting the data. Part II of the User Guide explains how to put a cluster of opportunity dataset to work, using the data to inform decision-making and to mobilize cluster employers as full partners in workforce and economic development.

Scholarship support for CSULB Global Logistics and MA in Global Logistics Programs; Hosts of USC interns

"CATESOL is the largest US affiliate of TESOL which has over 100 affiliates in US and abroad.
Members include classroom teachers at all levels, instructors in teacher-training programs, university students, aides, and administrators in CA and NV"

Team partners in professional development training programs in goods movement for engineers, planners and elected officials

Notes that the amount of hired skilled workers will decline from the percentage it was in during 2000. Claims that there is a mismatch on the amount of hired, educated, skilled workers and the total state population. Claims that funding for education seems to be a driving force for this miss-match, and in order to solve the problem, something has got to give

This paper conducts an international comparative analysis of relationships between car ownership, daily travel and urban form. Using travel diary data for the US and Great Britain, we estimate models of car ownership and daily travel distance. Both a structural model with daily travel conditional upon car ownership and a reduced form model for daily travel, excluding car ownership, are estimated. Model results are similar, and show that differences in travel are explained by (1) differences in demographics between the two countries; (2) lower household income in Great Britain; (3) country specific differences in costs of car ownership and use, transport supply and other factors we have not been able to control. We find that metropolitan size affects travel only in the largest metropolitan areas of the US. Daily travel distance is inversely related to local population density, but the effect is much stronger for the US than Great Britain. We conclude that higher transport costs in Great Britain promote economizing behavior, which in turns leads to more consumption of local goods and services and more use of alternative transport modes.