His research is at the nexus of urban data science, infrastructure design, and mobility behavioral science to redefine how urban logistics systems are designed to improve livability, sustainability, and equitable distribution of goods and services. Some of the research projects he led explored alternative modes of transporting goods in cities such as cargo e-bikes, introduced new methods to quantify delivery vehicles' externalities, pilot-tested innovative sensor networks to provide real-time parking information, and studied how a community-driven food rescuing and delivery systems can reduce food insecurity. His work has been published in leading scientific journals including Transportation Science, Transport Policy, and Nature’s Scientific Reports, and it was featured in popular media outlets. Before joining the Urban Freight Lab, he was a visiting research fellow at MIT's Intelligent Transportation System Lab and a President Graduate Fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, where he received a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems Design.

Gabriela serves as PBOT’s Freight Coordinator and 2040Freight Plan subject matter expert. Her role is to help guide the city’s evolving understanding of Urban Freight System and shape PBOT’s freight-related work program to support an equitable, climate-friendly, and efficient system. Before joining PBOT, Gabriela worked at the Urban Freight Lab at the University of Washington for five years, contributing and leading novel research in the urban freight field. These research efforts have resulted in the development of new bodies of work, publications in peer- reviewed journals, city reports, and new protocols for freight infrastructure design and management.

Art Pearce is an experienced urban innovator with an extensive background in broad public-private collaborations utilizing transportation investment and mobility innovations to shape the future of cities. He has twenty + years of experience envisioning and driving change in Portland’s transportation system: establishing policy, planning and delivering transformative investments, and overseeing people-based behavior change and mobility programs. He has a deep understanding of the challenges cities and city governments face in propelling change at an adequate pace, and the new imperatives presented by the crises of climate, and social and racial equity.

Mary Catherine is a Parking Strategist with the SDOT Curbside Management team. Over the last 20 years, she has worked on a variety of curbside policy, programs, and technology projects. She manages a team of curbspace planners working to settle curbside access priority, mobile parking payment, an urban goods strategy, neighborhood parking and access planning, and the Performance-Based Parking Pricing Program. She has an undergrad degree in Government from Cornell University, and masters’ degrees in Urban Planning and Transportation Planning from the University of Washington.