Cluster 3 Co-chairs:
Sandra Melo has a PhD in Civil Enginner by the University of Porto – Faculdade de Engenharia (Portugal), investigating the influence of the power of the local context on the performance of last mile ‘best practices’ towards a more sustainable mobility, considering public and private (freight and passenger) transport. Her current research focuses on urban logistics, sustainable freight transport, transport policy evaluation and transport behaviour decision-making. She is currently Post-doc researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa and Senior Member of the Portuguese Civil Engineers Chamber. She has actively participated in NECTAR, especially in Cluster 3, were she participated in the organizing committee of cluster meetings and is a co-editor in two NECTAR Series volume on City Distribution And Urban Freight Transport( published by Edward Elgar) and on Sustainable Logistics (published by Emerald). Website: https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/en/func_geral.formview?p_codigo=355095
Travis Fried is a spatial data and urban freight enthusiast with a Master’s degree in GIS from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology from Carleton College. He is currently a PhD candidate in Transportation Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, advised by Dr. Anne Goodchild at the Urban Freight Lab. Previously, he worked as an urban mobility researcher for World Resources Institute (WRI) studying the environmental, health, and equity impacts of open public transit data, urban freight, shared mobility, transport-related stimulus spending and impact investing – among other topics. These days, his work explores the intersection of city logistics, e-commerce, urban planning, transportation equity and environmental justice. Travis has been a NECTAR member since 2022. For more: http://depts.washington.edu/sctlctr/about-us/faculty-professional-staff/travis-fried
Nicolas Brusselaers is a guest professor and senior researcher in the Sustainable Logistics team of the Mobilise Research Group (VUB) and post-doctoral research at Linköping University (Sweden). His field of research currently revolves around the systemic environmental and economic interplay between transportation, urban development and energy, and more concretely on projects related to sustainable, construction and zero-impact transport & logistics. During his PhD in Business Economics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, he modeled the dynamic impact of construction transport on air quality. Afterwards, he joined Linköping University (LiU, Sweden) for a 2-year postdoc specializing further in Construction Logistics, where he is still part-time affiliated. Nicolas built an extensive network in developing European sustainability assessment and governance frameworks and their regional implementations, and supervises doctoral candidates in the fields of data-driven last-mile transport and circular construction logistics. He taught courses on Emerging Concepts & Practices in Transport (Ph.D.), Sustainable & Digital Construction Supply Chains (MSc.2) and Supply Chain Management (MSc.2). Nicolas is a member of NECTAR since 2019. Latest publications: https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/nicolas-brusselaers/publications/
Jonas Flodén is associate professor in logistics at the Department of Business Administration at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His main research interests are freight transport, business models, intermodal transport, information technology and sustainability in transport. Jonas Flodén has previously served as Head for section for Industrial and Financial Management and Logistics at the Department of Business administration for 7 years and have been the director of the research centre Northern LEAD for 3 years. His main teaching areas are freight transport, supply chain management and information technology. Website: https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/jonasfloden
Cluster activities:
- Cluster established, Helsinki, 2001
- Cluster Workshop, Delft, 2002
- Cluster Workshop, Liège, Belgium, November 2002
- Cluster Workshop, Lugano, Switzerland, November 2004
- Cluster Workshop, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2006
- Cluster Workshop, Delft, The Netherlands, March 2008
- NECTAR Conference, Arlington, 2009
- Cluster Workshop, Porto, Portugal, November, 2009
- NECTAR Conference, Antwerp, May, 2011
- Cluster Workshop, Brussels, Belgium, Jan 2012
- NECTAR Conference. Azores, June 2013
- Cluster Workshop, Portugal, Algarve, April 2015
- Cluster 3 Thematic Session “Smart freight transport: the way forward” 12th International NECTAR Conference, Ann Arbor, USA, 14-16 June 2015
- Nectar Conference, Michigan, June 2015
- Joint Cluster 2 and Cluster 3 Meeting on “The role of planning towards sustainable urban mobility” in Brno, Czech Republic, May 2016 (output: ETRR special issue: http://blogs.springeropen.com/springeropen/2018/09/06/role-planning-towards-sustainable-urban-mobility/)
- Cluster 3: Thematic Session “Hyperconnected logistics”, 13th NECTAR international conference, May 31-June 2 2017, Madrid.
- Cluster 3: Cluster Thematic session “The Logistics of Living in Cities”, 14th NECTAR international conference, June 5-7, 2019, University of Helsinki
- Cluster 3: Cluster Thematic session “European Modular System”, 4/5 June 2020, Zaragoza (Spain)
- Cluster 3 Workshop on “Intermodality and synchromodality in the European Modular System”: 3/4 June 2021 (online)
- Cluster 3 Workshop on “Delivering Just Sustainabilities: Green and Equitable Transitions in Last-Mile Logistics”, 20-22 September 2023, Madrid (jointly with the Polytechnic University of Madrid)
- Cluster 3 workshop on “Green Innovations in Transport and Logistics Systems: Transforming Supply Chains for Sustainable Development”. Ottawa (Canada), March 28-30, 2025.
See the publication page for publications organised by the cluster.