University of New Mexico
Principal Investigator: Hotspot Stability of Freight Vehicle Crashes Involving Vulnerable Road Users: A Spatio-Temporal Perspective. Funding Agency: Center for Pedestrian and Bike Safety. Tier-1 University Transportation Center funded by the USDOT
Co-Investigator: Understanding Factors Influencing Truck Crashes with Vulnerable Road Users: A Panel Data Approach. Funding Agency: Center for Pedestrian and Bike Safety. Tier-1 University Transportation Center funded by the USDOT. PI: Oriana Calderon.
Team member: Disaster-Induced Transportation Barriers Impeding People's Access to Health Facilities after Hurricanes Helene and Milton and its Disproportionate Impact on Socially Vulnerable Communities. Developed by the University of Buffalo, the University of New Mexico, the University of Central Florida, and The Ohio State University. Public Health Extreme Events Research (PHEER) Network
University of Toronto
Project manager: Smart Freight Centre’s Freight Data Warehouse. Developed by the University of Toronto, McMaster University, York University, and Toronto Metropolitan University. PI. Matthew Roorda
Project manager: City Logistics for Urban Economy. Developed by University of Toronto, McMaster University, York University, public sector partners (The Region of Peel, York Region, City of Toronto, and Transport Canada), and industry sector partners (Robert Bosch Inc., CHET, Esri Canada, Geotab Inc.). Funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). PI. Matthew Roorda
Lead: Visualizing Greenhouse Gases and Air Contaminants on the GTHA Freeways. Funded by Transport Canada (2022-2023)
Lead: Dashboard Visualization of GHGs and Air Contaminants on the GTHA Freeways. Funded by Transport Canada (2023-2024)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Co-lead: Collaborative Approaches to Foster Energy-Efficient Logistics in the Albany-New York City Corridor. Funded by the Department of Energy. (2018-2022). PI. Jose Holguin-Veras
Co-lead: Effective Decision-Making Methods for Freight-Efficient Land Use. Funded by National Cooperative Highway Research Program. (2017-2020) .PI. Jose Holguin-Veras
Team member: Off-Hour Delivery Trusted Vendor Program. Funded by The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. (2017-2019). PI. Jose Holguin-Veras
Team member: Bangladesh Freight Study Impacts of Congestion on Logistic Costs. Funded by The World Bank. (2017-2018 ). PI. Jose Holguin-Veras
Universidad de los Andes
Co-lead: Development of a Land Use Transportation Integration (LUTI) Model for the Metropolitan Area of Bogota. Funded by Universidad de Los Andes and Bogota Planning Department. (2015-2016). PI. Juan Pablo Bocarejo
Co-lead: Assessing Accessibility and Transport Subsidies in Bogota by Universidad de Los Andes and the World Bank. ( 2015-2016). PI. Juan Pablo Bocarejo
Team member: The Access as a Determinant Variable on Residential Location Choice of Low-Income Households in Bogotá. Funded Universidad de Los Andes and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. (2014-2015)
Universidad Catolica de Chile
Team member: Studies & Capacity Building of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), developed by the BRT Centre for Excellence and the China Urban Transport Research Centre (CUSTREC). Leader: Muñoz-Abogabir, JC. (2015)
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., & Roorda, M. J. (2025). Impact of Demand Management Policies on Freight Efficient Land-Uses in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area: A Case Study in the Retail Sector. Transport Policy.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Feng, Z., Klimczak, J., Bayanouni, H., Carr, K., & Roorda, M. (2025). A Freight Data Repository As Foundational Pillar for Urban Freight Research. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 61, 101417.
Amaral, J. C., Rivera-González, C., & Holguín-Veras, J. (2025). The Impacts of Port Truck Traffic’s Temporal Patterns on Emissions. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 146, 104918.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C, Holguin-Veras, J. (2025). A Facility Location Problem with Freight Tour Distribution to Support Freight-Efficient Land Use Planning. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Rivera-Gonzalez, C, Ahmed, U., Roorda, M. (2025). The Evolving Landscape of Urban Logistics: A Study of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Journal of Transport Geography
Holguín-Veras, J., Amaral, J. C., & Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2024). Using GPS Data to Assess the Effectiveness of Freight Demand Management Strategies. Transportation Research Procedia, 79, 21-28.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C.. & Amaral, J. C. (2024). Assessment of freight accessibility in New York City: A spatial-temporal approach. Journal of Transport Geography, 114, 103777.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Holguin-Veras, J., Calderon, O. (2023). Supply-Chain-Focused Measures of Centrality and Spread in Metropolitan Areas. Journal of Transport Geography, 107, 103553
Arrieta-Prieto, M., Ismael, A., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., & Mitchell, J. (2022). Location of Urban Micro-consolidation Centers to Reduce Social Cost of Last-Mile Deliveries of Cargo: A Heuristic Approach. Networks 79 (3), 292-313
Magalhaes, D.A., Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2021). Car Users Attitudes Towards a Novel Bus System to Mitigate Urban Congestion in a Developing Country. Transportation Policy, 110, 452-464
Guzman, L. A., Oviedo, D., & Rivera, C. (2017). Assessing Equity in Transport Accessibility to Work and Study: The Bogotá Region. Journal of Transport Geography, 58, 236-246.
Guzman, L. A., Gomez, A. M., & Rivera, C. (2017). A Strategic Tour Generation Modeling within a Dynamic Land-Use and Transport Framework: A Case Study of Bogota, Colombia. Transportation research procedia, 25, 2536-2551.
Bocarejo, J. P., Guzman, L. A., Portilla, I., Meléndez, D., Gómez, A. M., & Rivera, C. (2017). Access as a Determinant Variable in the Residential Location Choice of Low-income Households in Bogotá. Transportation Research Procedia, 25, 5121-5143.
Holguín-Veras, J., Rivera-González, C., Caron, B., Amaral, J. C., & Ismael, A. (2023). Integrated transportation and land-use program to improve metropolitan freight system performance. Chapter 2, 35-58.
Holguín-Veras, J., et al. (2019). Metropolitan Economies and the Generation of Freight and Service Activity: An International Perspective. Urban Logistics: Management, Policy and Innovation in a Rapidly Changing Environment. M. Browne, S. Behrends, J. Woxenius, G. Giuliano and J. Holguín-Veras, Kogan Page Limited: 19-51.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Klimczak, J., Roorda, M. (2024) Dashboard Visualization of GHGs and Air Contaminants on the GTHA Freeways
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Roorda, M. (2023) Visualizing GHGs and Air Contaminants on GTHA Freeways
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2022). Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools.
Dappe, M. H., Kunaka, C., Lebrand, M., & Weisskopf, N. (2019). Moving forward: Connectivity and logistics to sustain Bangladesh’s success. World Bank Publications.
Wang, X. C., Schmid, J., Gonzalez, C. R., Rios, D. R., Miller, M., Marino, A., & Gensler, K. (2018). Investigating Public Opinions towards Emerging Transportation Technologies and Service Forms.
Guzmán, L., Oviedo, D., Rivera, C., & Cárdenas, S. (2016). Accessibility, affordability and poverty: Assessing public transport subsidies in Bogota. Bogotá: The World Bank.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2025). Impact of demand management policies on freight-efficient land uses in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area: A case study in the retail sector. Presentation for the Transportation Association of Canada Mobility Management Committee. Webinar. September 24.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2025). Transformando Áreas Metropolitanas mediante la Investigación en Logística Urbana Sostenible. Presentation at the Foro de Movilidad, Logística, y Transporte, Bucaramanga, Colombia. August 27.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2025). Towards Greener Urban Areas: Unleashing the Power of Sustainable Urban Freight Research. Presentation for the Pan American Society of Transportation Research. Webinar. July 8.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Islam, S., Ismael, A., Sahin, O., Zuniga-Garcia, N. (2025). Decoding logistical clusters in metropolitan areas. Presentation at the 3rd Annual POLARIS User Group Workshop, Chicago, Illinois. June 25-27.
Ramirez-Rios D., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Kman, N., Soto-Vergel, A., Brennan, J., Tabassum, A., Naik, M, Nassan, S., Nasir, T. (2025) Disaster-induced transportation barriers and their impact on access to health facilities for socially vulnerable communities, 50th Natural Hazards Workshop, Denver, CO, July 13 - 14, 2025.
Calderon, O., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Holguin-Veras, J. (2025). Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities and Freight Trips in Metropolitan Areas. Presentation at the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development, Glendale, AZ, June 11, 2025
Ramirez-Rios D., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Kman, N., Soto-Vergel, A., Brennan, J., Tabassum, A., Naik, M, Nassan, S., Nasir, T. (2025). Disaster-induced transportation barriers and their impact on access to health facilities for socially vulnerable communities, National Hurricane Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 14 - 17.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Ismael, A., Sahin, O., Zuniga-Garcia, N. (2025) Decoding logistical clusters in metropolitan areas. Presentation at the International Urban Freight Conference, Los Angeles, California. April 9-11.
Pineda, D*., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Gonzalez-Calderon, C.(2025). Facility Size as a Determinant of Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Logistic Cluster Patterns.Presentation at the International Urban Freight Conference, Los Angeles, California. April 9-11.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Pineda, D.(2025). Decoding Socio-Demographic Dynamics within Logistics Clusters: A Roadmap to Fairer Supply Chains, Presentation at the 60th Paving and Transportation Conference, Albuquerque, N.M.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Roorda, M.(2025). Impact of Demand Management Policies on Freight Efficient Land-Uses in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Presentation at Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
Vasco-Diaz, L., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Posada-Henao, J., Gonzalez-Calderon, C., Ramirez-Rios, D. (2025). Estimation of a Loading/Unloading Parking Duration Model for Commercial Vehicles in Urban Areas in the Global South Using Lasso Regression, Presentation at Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Ahmed, U., Roorda, M.(2024). Evolving Landscape of Urban Logistics: A Study of the Greater Golden Horseshoe, Presentation at the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Ziang, F., Bayanouni, H., Carr, K., Roorda, M.J. (2024). A Freight Data Repository as Foundational Pillar for Sustainable Urban Freight Research. Green Logistics for Greener Cities. Szczecin (Poland). May 22-24.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Roorda, M.(2024). Transforming Urban Logistics: Demand-Centric Policy Impacts on Freight Efficient Land-Uses. 59th Annual Conference of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum. Kelowna. May 12-15.
Klimczak, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Roorda, M.(2024). Gridlock in the Dugout. 59th Annual Conference of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum. Kelowna. May 12-15.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Roorda, M.(2024). Transforming Urban Logistics: Demand-Centric Policy Impacts on Freight Efficient Land-Uses., Presentation at Transforming Transportation 2024, Washington D.C.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Roorda, M.(2024). Transforming Urban Logistics: Demand-Centric Policy Impacts on Freight Efficient Land-Uses., Poster at First Connections to Sustain Science in Latin America Symposium, Barranquilla, Colombia.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Ahmed, U., Roorda, M.(2024). Evolving Landscape of Urban Logistics: A Study of the Greater Golden Horseshoe, Poster at Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Holguin-Veras, J., Calderon, O.(2024). Distribution of Economic Activities and Freight Trips in Metropolitan Areas., Poster at Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C. & Coutinho, J. (2023). Assessment of Freight Accessibility in New York City: A Spatial-Temporal Approach. World Conference in Transportation Research. Montreal. July 16-21.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Holguín-Veras, J. (2023). A Facility Location Problem with Freight Tour Distribution to Support Freight-Efficient Land Use Planning. World Conference in Transportation Research. Montreal. July 16-21.
Holguin-Veras, J.,Coutinho, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C.(2023). The Effect of Time of Travel on the Performance of Port Related Truck Traffic. World Conference in Transportation Research. Montreal. July 16-21.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Ziang, F., Bayanouni, H., Carr, K., Roorda, M.J. (2023). A Freight Data Repository as Foundational Pillar for Sustainable Urban Freight Research. 58th Annual Conference of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum. Toronto. May 8-10.
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Roorda, M.J. (2023). A Freight Emissions Monitoring Approach for Freeways in the GTHA. 2nd City Logistics for Urban Economy Symposium. Toronto. May 11.
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C. Caron, B., Calderon, O. (2022). Econometric Characterization of Spatial Distribution of Urban Freight Generation. Presentation at International Urban Freight Conference, Long Beach
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Calderon, O., Schmid, J. (2022). Supply-chain-focused measures of centrality and spread in metropolitan areas. Presentation at International Urban Freight Conference, Long Beach
Holguin-Veras, J.,Coutinho, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2022). Characterization of the geographic patterns of fuel consumption and emissions of freight vehicles in the Albany-New York City Corridor. Presentation at International Urban Freight Conference, Long Beach
Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2022). A Mathematical Model for Freight-Efficient Land Use Planning, Presentation at the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
Holguin-Veras, J.,Coutinho, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C.(2022). The Effect of Time of Travel on the Performance of Port Related Truck Traffic, Poster at Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Perez-Guzman, S. (2021), Metrics to Understand the Influence of Land Use Policy of Freight Efficiency, Presentation at 4th VREF Conference on Urban Freight, Gothenburg
Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Amaral, J. (2021), Assessment of Freight Accessibility in New York City: A Spatial-Temporal Approach, Presentation at 4th VREF Conference on Urban Freight, Gothenburg
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Schmid, J. (2020), Centrality and Measures of Spread to Characterize Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Poster at Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Amaral, J. (2019), Energy Efficient Logistics in the Albany- New York City Corridor, Presentation at International Urban Freight Conference, Long Beach
Holguin-Veras, J., Encarnacion, T., Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2019), Estimating fuel consumption and environmental pollution of freight activities from GPS data, Presentation at International Urban Freight Conference, Long Beach
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2019), Spatial Patterns of Freight Intensive Sectors, Presentation at International Urban Freight Conference, Long Beach
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Schmid, J, Ng, J. (2019), Characterization of Spatial Patterns in MSA, Presentation at International Urban Freight Conference, Long Beach
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2019), Effective Decision-Making Methods for Freight-Efficient Land Use, Presentation at VREF PhD Students and Younger Researchers Workshop, Fortaleza (Brazil)
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Ramirez-Rios, D. (2018), A Spatial Methodology for Characterizing Freight in Metropolitan Areas in the US, Presentation at The Institute for Operation Research and the Management Sciences Phoenix
Arrieta-Prieto, M., Ismael, A., Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2018), Bi-Level Optimization Method to Minimize Externalities by Means of Eco-Transfer Areas in Urban Cores, Presentation at The Institute for Operation Research and the Management Sciences, Phoenix.
Holguin-Veras, J., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Ramirez-Rios, D. (2018), Effective Decision-Making Methods for Freight-Efficient Land Use – The NCHRP 08-111 Project, Presentation at VREF Advanced Studies Institutes on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (VASI-SUFS)
Wang,X., Ramírez-Ríos, D.G., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Schmid, J. (2018), Public Opinion Towards Crowd Deliveries in New York State, Presentation at Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
Guzman, L., Oviedo, D. Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2017), Accessibility and Poverty: Assessing Public Transport Subsidies in Bogotá, Colombia. Presentation at Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
Guzman, L., Gomez, A.M., Rivera-Gonzalez, C. (2016) A Strategic Tour Generation Modeling within a Dynamic Land-Use and Transport Framework: A Case Study of Bogota, Colombia. Presentation at World Conference on Transportation Research, Shanghai
Journal of Transport Geography
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Transport Reviews
Networks and Spatial Economics
Transportation Research Record
Journal of Urban Planning
Research in Transportation Business and Management
Research in Transportation Economics
Transportation Planning and Technology
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport
Selected project for the INRIX x MetroLab Challenge for in-kind data contributions for the project "Hotspot Stability of Freight Vehicle Crashes Involving Vulnerable Road Users: A Spatio-Temporal Perspective"
Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship 2023 winner—awarded by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) and the Urban Mobility program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. Link
Former committee member for the Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation (AT025) for the Transportation Research Board
Purdue University selected me as a TrailBlazer in Engineering (TBE) fellow in 2023. Link
Northeastern University selected me to participate in the 2023 New England Future Faculty Workshop. Link
Committee member for Freight Transportation and Logistics for the Pan-American Society of Transportation Research
Committee member for Transport Planning and Management for the Pan-American Society of Transportation Research
Co-Chair for the Fifth Smart Freight Centre Symposium (2023, November 10). Toronto, Canada
Nomination by the University of Toronto for the Banting Fellowship award (2022)
Supply Chain Data Analytics Competition winner - Hosted by the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. Link
Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship 2021 Honorable Mention
Finalist in the Traffic Control Device Channel 2022 at the Transportation Research Board
RPI article related to my Ph.D. Journey. Link
Vice-president of Women Transportation Seminar RPI chapter. Academic year 2020
Treasurer of Women Transportation Seminar RPI chapter. Academic years 2018, 2019, 2021
Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent)