Using Amsterdam’s Canals to Fix Urban Freight: New Research Shows the Way
A new academic study from TU Delft takes a deep dive into one of Amsterdam’s most pressing urban challenges: how to keep goods flowing into the city without choking its historic streets and aging infrastructure. The paper, by Bijvoet, Karademir, and Atasoy (2026), models a multimodal two-echelon distribution system for Amsterdam’s HoReCa sector (hotels, restaurants, …