PhD scholarship in Technology-Enabled Urban Logistics, Curbside Management and Sustainable Urban Planning - DTU Engineering Technology

Are you passionate about urban logistics, sustainable urban mobility, and smart city planning? Do you want to work at the forefront of research investigating how new logistics technologies and curbside management strategies can support cleaner, quieter, and more efficient cities?

We invite applications for a full-time PhD position at DTU as part of an international Alliance PhD collaboration between DTU Engineering Technology, DTU Management, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The project, “Integrating Technology-Enabled Logistics and Sustainable Urban Planning:

A Comparative Study Between Copenhagen and Munich,” explores how emerging logistics technologies can be better integrated into urban planning to support sustainable urban mobility, more efficient logistics systems, and more liveable cities.

The project focuses on Copenhagen and Munich as living laboratories for understanding how cities can accommodate growing delivery demand while improving sustainability, accessibility, and urban quality of life. The objective of the PhD is to advance knowledge on the integration of innovative last-mile logistics solutions into sustainable urban planning and policy.

The project will investigate how technologies such as cargo bikes, drones, micro-hubs, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and electric delivery vans are transforming urban freight systems1 …