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Congratulation to the City of Minneapolis and the Seattle Department of Transportation for being awarded a stage-2 SMART Grant! The $14 million grant established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will digitize curb space management and planning for urban logistics mobility at scale in the city of Seattle and Minneapolis.

This week (of December 9, 2024) we pilot tested for the first time the community commected micro-pantries in the lab and in a real-world deployment, as part of our project Leveraging a connected network of unattended micro-pantries to reduce food waste and improve food security sponsored by the National Science Foundation Civic Innovation Challenge.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has released 27 different Climate Strategies That Work Playbook in a new climate action planning playbook, providing a direction for sustainable transport policy for State and local government.

Urban Freight Lab Q4 meeting

On November 16, the 2024 Civic Innovation Challenge officially started. All PIs of the projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation CIVIC grant were presented during a three-day kickoff event, including our project on community micropantries.