SYMPOSIUM MAY 17th “FUTURE TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR URBAN MOBILITY AND CITY LOGISTICS”

The Urban Logistics Chair at MINES ParisTech organises a symposium entitled “Future Trends and Technologies for Urban Mobility and City Logistics”.

This symposium will take place on May 17th from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm in the room L109, at MINES ParisTech (60 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006, Paris). This event is free but registration is mandatory.

To participate in this event, please register in the following form: https://goo.gl/forms/uLGnuNXbpLCVlHdW2

The symposium will be hosted by professor Jacek Zak, from the Poznan University of Technology, who will give two presentations (in English):

  • The Logistics Concept of the New Silk Route (Chinese – European Cooperation)
  • New Ideas and Solutions for Urban Mobility and City Logistics (incl. Autonomous Vehicles) – Design and Evaluation

Pr. Jacek Żak is an Associate Professor at Poznań University of Technology, Faculty of Engineering Management (Poland). For many years he has been a senior consultant at the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing in Poznan, and at the F5 (former W. Frackowiak and Partners) Consulting Company. He is the co-founder of the Private Undergraduate School of Logistics in Poznań and City Nav. Co. Ltd. – owner and operator of the www.jakdojade.pl portal (recently sold to ONET Holding).

HEATMAP OF FRENCH RESTAURANTS

A part of the works of the Urban Logistics Chaire consists in modelling urban logistics flows using information available in Open Data portals and open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

The example shown here explores automatic query tools for OpenStreetMap and interactive mapping (Folium / Leafet).

The map below proposes a heatmap of restaurants in France

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