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Managerial Publications
We connect our research with business practice
What Are Managerial Publications?
At ZLC, we believe in the importance of sharing knowledge beyond the academic sphere. That’s why we publish opinion pieces, technical analyses, and specialized outreach articles in industry media, professional journals, and leading platforms in logistics and supply chain management.
Through these publications, we aim to make our research accessible to a broader audience, spark dialogue around key challenges in logistics, and contribute to the continuous improvement of the business ecosystem.
Our researchers provide insights on trends, innovation, digitalization, sustainability, and emerging business models in logistics—always with a rigorous and practical approach.
ZLC Managerial Publications
Access a selection of articles published by our research team.
EcoLogistics in Bogotá: Simulating Urban Freight Emissions Reduction Pathways
By Dr. Beatriz Royo Around the world, cities and conurbations are urgently addressing the need to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and with transport accounting for around 15% of total emissions, and the demand for freight transport rising as cities...
Outsourcing logistics – what about the workers?
By Dr. Alicia Martinez de Yuso and Dr. Aldo Arranz-López Outsourcing so called ‘non-core’ activities, including logistics functions, is a well-established strategy right across industry and commerce; one that has been increasingly adopted as firms struggled to rebuild after the...
A digital future for military logistics
By Carolina Cipres, Dr. Teresa de la Cruz and Dr. Sara Sanchez ISDEFE, the Spanish Defence Ministry’s engineering consultancy, recently commissioned to ZLC a forward-looking study of current and emerging trends and technologies as they may affect military logistics. Armed...
Future Proof Logistics: Four Bold Futures for Europe’s TEN T Network
By Dr. Aldo Arranz-López A new Master Thesis from Zaragoza Logistics Center—authored by Eduardo Villarroya Doménech, Alejandro Millán GarcÃa and Ana MarÃa Salazar Payán under the supervision of Aldo Arranz-López and promoted by the pan‑European F&L freight and logistics community (https://www.europeanfreightleaders.eu/) -puts Europe’s freight transport backbone under a powerful magnifying glass....
Easing the load for urban logistics
By Dr. Aldo Arranz and Dr. Teresa de la Cruz Eiriz Urban freight transport is a critical component of city logistics, directly influencing economic activity, traffic congestion, and environmental sustainability. Yet, despite its fundamental role, freight planning has long taken...
Traditional industries need new skill sets
By Dr. Alicia MartÃnez de Yuso and Carolina Ciprés Advanced economies have been and remain crucially dependent on a number of fundamental industrial sectors – so fundamental and long-established, indeed, that their development needs can seem to be ignored amid...
Exploring the changing relationship of space and time in a digitalized world
By Dr. Aldo Arranz-López Digitization is having an increasing impact in all walks of life, not least in how, when, where and why we travel. Some of the likely effects are fairly obvious – for example, trends towards ‘working from...
Reskilling for new approaches to mobility
By Dr. Teresa De La Cruz and Dr. Susana Val Leer versión en español Two hundred years ago this year, England’s Stockton and Darlington Railway ushered in a revolution in transport for both passengers and goods traffic. Since then there...
Could Madrid’s perimeter lockdown strategy have worked?
By Dr. Alfonso de Miguel Arribas, ZLC Researcher. Leer versión en español During the Covid pandemic, most urban areas around the world adopted a range of  ‘non pharmaceutical interventions’ or NPIs, from compulsory mask-wearing and sanitation to lockdowns which aim...
Revisiting the pollution-routing problem
By Dr. Yasel Costa, ZLC Professor. Leer versión en español The Travelling Salesman Problem, ‘given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and...
Morocco trains for a sustainable future
By Dr. Susana Val, ZLC Director, and Dr. Beatriz Royo, ZLC Associate Professor. Leer versión en español The Kingdom of Morocco recognizes that achieving the economic growth necessary to generate more and better employment opportunities depends on its alignment with...
Beyond risk management – protecting critical freight infrastructures
By Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz, ZLC Professor, and Dr. Luca Urciuoli, ZLC Adjunct Professor. Leer versión en español Launched in October in Bologna, TRANSCEND is a vital new three year project, co-funded from the Horizon Europe programme, that directly addresses...
