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Dr. Susana Val
Biography
Associate Research Professor of Supply Chain Management
Dr. Susana Val is Associate Research Professor at MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and Deputy Director of the Research Institute affiliated to the University of Zaragoza, ZLC.
She obtained both a PhD and MSc degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Zaragoza. Her PhD Dissertation was awarded first Prize by CEL (Centro Español de Logística) University in 2008. Furthermore, she studied the Master of Engineering and Logistics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Her current research activities focus on improving infrastructures, logistics corridors, best practices, transport policies and urban mobility; as a result she has published book chapters in Springer and also in journals such as Supply Chain management Review, Transportation Planning and technology and International Journal of Procurement Management.
As part of her work, she concentrates on key areas including the decarbonization process and carbon footprint reduction, synchromodality, and the optimization of transport networks. She also focuses on enhancing logistics parks as strategic hubs for supply chain development, strengthening connectivity between ports and their hinterlands, and improving platform interoperability across supply chains.
Throughout her research activity at ZLC, she has led more than 30 research projects, collaborating with companies and entities such as Halliburton, Panalpina, P&G, Beiersdorf, Leo Pharma, SLB, Schindler, BSH, SAICA and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), among others.
Research Areas
Sustainable Networks
Sustainable Networks Group investigates how environmental concerns could be integrated into operational decision making throughout the supply chain.
Transport Networks & Urban Mobility
The Transport Research Group works on issues related to infrastructure, freight transportation and mobility, logistics corridors and the transport policies of Spain, the EU and Latin America.
Projects
RESKILLING envisions to implement a strategic approach, which will empower the workforce and businesses of Europe's mobility (of people and goods) sector, to effectively cope with the changes in the sector from CCAM deployment, but also to actively participate in advancing and refining the sector. For this to be achieved, RESKILLING will propose, implement, apply […]
MEDiterranean COllaborative LOgistics for the URban Space
Climate change is the foremost worldwide challenge. Among those contributing factors, some of the most pressing include congestion, which costs the European economy €100 billion per year- 1% of its GDP, air pollution, affecting people’s health, and transport emissions (those from freight count 25% of total urban transport emissions). The EU Green Deal targets to […]
DISCO will develop and demonstrate - in real-life conditions - a federated European urban freight (UF) data space as one stop shop of data sharing on digital urban logistics solutions and smart tools for ambitious decision making. It will be a continental Ten-T – oriented and distributed real-life ecosystem to prove its value via demonstrated […]
OPTIWASTE, AI Engine, Deep Learning and Machine Learning for Waste Logistics Optimization
Project description The project seeks to minimize the economic cost, CO2 impact per Kg managed and optimization of the recyclability and consequent "circularity" of the waste managed in selective collection processes through the application of massive data analysis technologies, AI Artificial Intelligence, deep learning and machine learning. It is intended through technological innovation to solve […]
Progress towards Federated Logistics Through the Integration Of TEN-T into A Global Trade Network
PLANET is a 36-month project, that goes beyond strategic transport studies and ICT for transport research, by rigorously demonstrating the emerging concepts (Physical Internet) and technologies (IoT, Blockchain) in three EU-global real-world corridors (China - EU- US). The project will focus in two key R&D pillars: A Geo-economics approach, modelling and specifying the dynamics of […]
The project SOLUTIONSplus aims to set up a global platform for shared, public and commercial e-mobility solutions, and to kick start the transition towards low-carbon urban mobility. The project work-plan encompasses city level demonstrations to test different types of innovative and integrated e-mobility solutions, vehicle and user-level demonstrations complemented by scaling up and replication activities. […]
Sustainable Policy Response to Urban mobility Transition
The rapidly changing urban mobility environment – characterized by emerging business models, new technologies, and disruptive innovation – represents a considerable challenge for urban mobility policy making. Previously tested urban mobility policy responses are not adequate to address the transition underway and to address today´s societal challenges and issues related to citizens’ everyday lives and […]
Multiprocess Platform for Information Exchange
The main objective of this project is the improvement of the efficiency of any type of process that involves different actors, which may belong to a single company or more than one. This improvement will occur in two levels: Operational level, by increasing the visibility of the processes executed by the organizations and the interoperability […]
Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods - Research and Implementation Support in Europe
SUNRISE will develop, implement, assess and facilitate learning about new, collaborative ways to address common mobility challenges at the neighbourhood level. Towards this aim, 6 cities will foster collaborative processes in specific neighbourhoods as “Neighbourhood Mobility Labs” with the explicit mandate to implement innovative solutions for and with their residents, businesses etc. SUNRISE rests on […]
Open network of hyper connected logistics clusters towards Physical Internet
If we want to reach the EU objective on modal shift for all transportation beyond 300 km and attract and strengthen competitiveness of local industries at the same time, we need to drive the development of a network of hyper-connected logistics multimodal clusters and their influence areas. The project’s vision is to leverage the full […]
Logistics Emission Accounting and Reduction Network
Addressing emissions from transport is becoming increasingly important due to its increasing contribution to total greenhouse gas emissions and the link to high levels of toxic pollutants in places with a high concentration of transport activity. The contribution of freight transport to these issues is already significant, and will become more so due to continued […]
Smart Supply Chain Oriented Rail Freight Services
The overall objective of Smart-Rail is: To improve the freight rail services offered to the shippers, focusing on the five key performance indicators: reliability, lead time, cost, flexibility and visibility. Smart-Rail has established the following sub-objectives: • Introduce a wide set of innovative measures aiming to improve the freight rail services offered to the shippers. […]
Energy, Environmental and Economic Optimization of Logistics Process Management
LOGIPRO-CONTROL it is an R & D technological Research Project that integrating the research & Knowledge generated by the development of its predecessor, CO2Logistic project, will expand its capabilities and scope so as to bring to market a new tool not only limited to the calculation of the carbon footprint but aiming at providing the […]
Sharing Opportunities for Low Carbon Urban TransporTatION
Project Description Transport is a key enabler of economic activity and social connectivity. While providing essential services to society, transport is also an important part of the economy and it is at the core of a number of major sustainability challenges, such as climate change, air quality, safety, energy, security and efficiency in the use […]
Project Description The project, funded under the MED Objective 3.1: Improvement of maritime accessibility and of transit capacities through multimodality and intermodality, aims at improving the competitiveness of port systems in the MED area by refining accessibility through technology and procedural innovations, and guaranteeing sustainable transport. The idea focuses on the realization of interoperable management […]
Mediterranean Interoperatibility E-services for Logistics and Environment sustainability
Beneficiaries & Implementing bodies See list below The main objectives of the action is to design the architecture and to develop a pre-deployment pilot interoperable ICT platform (the “MIELE Middleware”) able to interface ICT systems (i.e. single windows, port community systems) in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus and Germany (the “National Vertical Pilots”). The MIELE […]
Analysis and optimization of Urban Freight Distribution in Zaragoza
Project Description This project aims at analyzing the problems stemming from the urban freight distribution in the city of Zaragoza. Its goal is to design a series of demonstrators to prove different actions aiming at improving the supply conditions. The main objectives of the Project are: Characterize urban distribution in the city of Zaragoza Identify […]
Description CO2 LOGISTIC is the development of an IT tool that will permit the integration of the methodology and the knowledge generated during the project, in such a way that the information can be made accessible to the current market, and that the calculation of the carbon footprint of the logistics sector in Aragon, and […]
Methodology to Analyze, Systematize, and Quantify Performance in Freight Logistics Chains
Project Description Logistics performance is a measurement of how efficient logistics is in enabling the flow of goods from suppliers to manufacturers and consumers, ensuring that the right products are delivered in the right amount and at the right time. It has been broadly acknowledged that a highly efficient logistics performance is essential to achieve […]
Monograph on Logistics and Transport in Aragón
Coordinator Body: Main Researchers: Other Researchers: Term: -30/09/10 Download Monograph Project Description The Logistics and Transport of Aragón Monograph reflects the efforts of the Autonomous Region of Aragon to invigorate industry in this region, favored by its geographic, economic and social potential as well as by the investments made by the Administration in the last […]
The Agents that make up the air freight transport chain
Other Researchers: María Perez, Diego Chocarro, Sira Marqueta, Clara García, Noelia Mayoral, Sergio Fernández, Santiago Kraiselburd, Daniel Betrán Project Description The project was a seminar regarding national air freight from the point of view of the logistics experiences of several companies and agents belonging to the air logistics chain on issues regarding goods freight and transportation. […]
Definition of a Spanish Network of Logistics Platforms
Project Description This projects aims to design a coordinated system of logistics platforms, integrated within the set of Spanish infrastructures, which will allow a planned development in accordance with the requirements of the production sector. Based on a diagnosis of the current situation and a detailed analysis of the economic and functional synergies, and once […]
Innovative traveller information technologies for the promotion of sustainable urban mobility
Project Description The ultimate aim of the project is to promote sustainable urban mobility and the use of public transport through the research and development of new information methods and technologies for planning of urban journeys by travellers. The project thus puts forward the experimental development of a traveller support system to choose itineraries and […]
Project Description The objective is to improve accessibility to modal intermodal interchange centres and logistics platforms, public and private, in order to decongest bottlenecks and overcome the lack of integration between the participating agents, thus achieving a more fluent, quick, flexible and sustainable door-to-door intermodal transport. The project includes (i) analysing the current problems of […]
Project for the development of the Zaragoza Airport
Project Description The airport of Zaragoza is a well equipped airport in aeronautical infrastructures with very low congestion, which has been possible to achieve an important place in the cargo transport, and particularly, in perishable transport. The main objective of the project has been to determine the possibility of reinforcing the demand by analyzing other […]
Project Description The main goal of this project is to increase the level of competitiveness of Spanish companies through the development of knowledge, methodologies and practices within the field of logistics, exploiting the use of information and communication technologies at the service of increased supply chain efficiency in a globalised environment. The project includes basic […]
Papers
Managerial Publications
Reskilling for new approaches to mobility
By Dr. Teresa De La Cruz and Dr. Susana Val
Morocco trains for a sustainable future
By Dr. Susana Val and Dr. Beatriz Royo
Plane-spotting – an air cargo observatory for Madrid
By Dr. Susana Val
Aragon – pharmaceuticals' gateway to Europe?
By Dr. Susana Val
Modelling sustainability opportunities in logistics
By Dr. Susana Val
Training and education: key steps towards logistics decarbonisation
By Dr. Susana Val and Dr. Beatriz Royo
Clearing paths for urban freight
By Dr. Beatriz Royo and Dr. Susana Val
Freight in the mix for sustainable urban mobility
By Dr. Susana Val
Creating Common Measures for Logistics Carbon Emissions
By Dr. Susana Val
ZLC Report Paves the Way for TIR Transportation in the Black Sea Area
By Dr. Mustafa Çägri Gürbüz, Dr. Milos Milenkovic, Dr. Luca Urciuoli and Dr. Susana Val
Removing the Road Blocks to Cross-City Collaboration
By Dr. Susana Val
Study of the Transpyrenean corridor in comparison with other corridors in the Iberian Peninsula using GIS tools
Esteban B., Val S., Roldán F., Study of the Transpyrenean corridor in comparison with other corridors in the Iberian Peninsula using GIS tools. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 160, 2014, pp. 234-243
Optimization of the air cargo supply chain
Pérez, M., Val, S., Larrodé, E., Sainz, R. Optimization of the air cargo supply chain. Journal of Airline and Airport Management, Vol 2 (2), pp. 121-123
Spanish Port Hinterland Intermodal Information System-FUTUREMED Pilot
S. Val, F. Rodan. Spanish Port Hinternland Intermodal Information - FUTUREMED Pilot. International Journals of Advanced Logistics. Special Issue: 6th European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics (ECITL). 2013 Vol 2 (2) pp 1-17
Evaluación Económica de la Construcción de la Travesía Central Pirenaica
Sainz R., Val S., Chocarro D. Principios. Estudios de Economía Política., Vol. 21, pp. 81-98
