Laetitia DABLANC

Laetitia Dablanc, an urban planner, is a Professor/Director of Research at the University Gustave Eiffel in Paris where she heads the Logistics City Chair (https://www.lvmt.fr/chaires/logistics-city/). Her areas of research are freight transportation, freight and the environment, urban freight and logistics, on-demand delivery platforms, freight policies, spatial issues related to logistics. She received a PhD in transportation planning from Ecole des Ponts-ParisTech, and a Master’s degree in city and regional planning from Cornell University. She was initially trained in policy analysis and economics at Science Po Paris. Dr. Dablanc has authored or co-authored numerous publications on freight transportation and urban logistics. Dr. Dablanc regularly works as an expert for international agencies (World Bank, ITF/OECD, UNCTAD). She is a member of ARPE’s stakeholders Council in France.

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Dablanc, L. (2025) The role of freight transportation in smart cities for advancing the clean energy transition. Chapter 10 in Barichella, A., Yada, J., Wood, G. (Dir.) The Palgrave Handbook of Cybersecurity, Technologies and Energy Transitions. Palgrave Studies in Energy Transitions (PSET), Palgrave.

Dablanc, L. (2025) Transport policy at an impasse. Chapter 8 in Perl, A., Ray, R., Reardon, L. (Dir.) Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy. Edward Elgar.   

Dablanc, L. (2025) La logistique urbaine. Techniques de l’Ingénieur.

Dablanc, L. (2025) Les plateformes numériques de livraison. Ch VIII in Daugareilh, I. (Dir.) La plateformisation du travail – 1re édition. Bruylant.

Dablanc, L., Heitz, A. (2024) Spatial patterns and investments in freight facilities. Ch. 5 in Tavasszy, L., Piecyk, M., Browne, M. (Dir.) Freight transport planning. Collection Advances in Transport Policy and Planning, Elsevier.

Dablanc, L., Adoue, F. (2024) New ways of collecting urban freight traffic data and applications for urban freight policies and research? Case Studies on Transport Policy, 19, 101315.

Dablanc, L., Adoue, F. (2024) Logistique urbaine : de « nouvelles données » pour observer les flux, ce que les villes européennes nous apprennent. Transports, Infrastructures & Mobilités, 542.

Shorung, M., Lecourt, T., Dablanc, L. (2024) Differential logistics sprawl: Assessing the spatial footprint of e-commerce. The case of Amazon warehouses in the United States. Journal of Transport and Land Use.

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World Conference on Transport Research Society: member of the Steering Committee.

Transportation Research Board (USA), member of two committees: Transportation in the Developing Countries and Freight Transportation Data.

Editorial Boards of Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Elsevier, Flux, Cairn; La revue Transports, EMH Editions.

• Ecole des Ponts Paris-Tech. Executive Master Program on Smart Mobility, co-coordinator of Organization of Mobility Systems.
• Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris: co-coordinator of Governance and Economics of Transportation.
• Past: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Executive Master Program on Global Supply Chain Management: coordinator of SMart Green Logistics. University of Gothenburg, Business School, MS in Logistics and Transport Management, lectures in GM0521 “City Logistics and Urban Freight Transport.”

• Qualification professeur (CNU Section 24), 2016
• Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), 2012, Université de Paris-Est
• PhD from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/University of Paris-Est (1997) – nominated for best PhD Dissertation at Ecole des Ponts for year 1997
• Master of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University (1992), Fulbright scholar, Lavoisier scholar

Post-doc supervision: Abel Kebede Reda (2024-2027), Marion Albertelli (2023-2025). Past: Hannah Yee (2023-2024), Heleen Buldeo-Rai (2020-2022), Matthieu Schorung (2021-2023), Adeline Heitz (2019), Z. Liu (2016-2017), Eleonora Morganti (2012-2014).

PhD supervisions

• Reece Fisher, city logistics and logistics real estate, CIFRE Sogaris, 2023-2026, with Adeline Heitz (CNAM).
• Pierre-Henri Besnard, politicization of city logistics, Ecole des Ponts-ParisTech, 2023-2026, with Gilles Jeannot (LATTS).