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Konstantina Katsela
Associate Senior Lecturer
Department of Business AdministrationAbout Konstantina Katsela
Konstantina is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Industrial and Financial Management & Logistics at the University of Gothenburg. She joined the unit in 2021 as a postdoctoral researcher.
Konstantina's research areas are city logistics, urban freight transportation, business models, business model canvas and business cases of urban freight as well as the automating process of urban freight deliveries and e-commerce.
Konstantina has published her work in numerous academic journals and conference proceedings. She has also presented her work at numerous academic conferences. Konstantina is also a reviewer for a number of academic journals and has been assigned with the title of exceptional reviewer by Elsevier.
Konstantina is a member of:
- Urban Freight Platform a University of Gothenburg and Chalmers initiative supported by the Volvo Research Education Foundations (VREF) and Northern LEAD.
- Northern LEAD, a logistics competence centre formed by Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in co-operation with the Logistics and Transport Society LTS.
- Aurora, a University of Gothenburg, Chalmers, University of Washington, SINTEF and NTNU research network and initiative.
- Central London Freight Quality Partnership.
Konstantina defended her Ph.D. dissertation in May, 2020 at Lund University with title "Towards a Business Model for Viable City Logistics Initiatives: The role of financial continuity, externalities and stakeholders". Konstantina also holds a master degree in Economics from Umeå University and a bachelor degree in International Economics and Business Relations from Democritus University. She is originally from Greece.
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Developing Scalable Urban Freight Micro-Hubs: A Collaborative Project for Sustainable Urban Freight Transport in
Gothenburg
Konstantina Katsela
The Swedish Transportation Research Conference 2025, October 22-23, Norrköping - 2025 -
Urban
Freight
Michael Browne, Konstantina Katsela
John D. Nelson , Corinne Mulley , and Stephen Ison (ed.). Elgar Encyclopedia of Transport and Society. - 2025 -
Urban consolidation
centres
Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne
John D. Nelson, Corinne Mulley, and Stephen Ison (ed.). Elgar Encyclopedia of Transport and Society. - 2025 -
Understanding curbside demand using big data analytics & business models – A freight
perspective
Ivan Sanchez-Diaz, Juan Pablo Castrellon, Jorge Gil, Cecilia Bergstad, Konstantina Katsela, Jon Williamsson
Northern Lead - 2025 -
Situated Application of Knowledge – A Key Challenge for the Replicability of Sustainable Urban Freight
Research
Jon Williamsson, Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne
Transportation Research Symposium, 25-28 May 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - 2025 -
Municipal policy support for sustainable urban freight among micro and small
enterprises
Jon Williamsson, Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne
INUF - 2025 -
Viable business models for city logistics: exploring the cost structure and revenue streams of fourteen European
cases
Konstantina Katsela
Transportation Research Procedia - 2025 -
Implications of automated transport, loading, and unloading for the logistics
system
Farook Abdullah Sultan, Robin Hanson, Dan Andersson, Mats Johansson, Gunnar Stefansson, Michael Browne, Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Konstantina Katsela
36th NOFOMA 2024, Stockholm. - 2024 -
Unpacking Lindholmsleveransen: Scalability Challenges in Urban Logistics
Expansion
Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne, Ann-Sofie Karlsson, Peter Hagby
The Swedish Transportation Research Conference 2024, Gothenburg - 2024 -
Efficiency assessment in automated loading and unloading of autonomous trucks and its implications for the wider transportation
system
Farook Abdullah Sultan, Robin Hanson, Dan Andersson, Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne, Gunnar Stefansson, Tarun Kumar Agrawal
Transport Forum 2024, Linköping, Sweden. - 2024 -
Curbside management – a stakeholder
perspective
Jon Williamsson, Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne
STRC 2024 - 2024 -
Drivkrafter och utmaningar vid automatisk lastning och lossning av autonoma
lastbilar
Robin Hanson, Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Konstantina Katsela, Pia Wijk, Måns Isacsson, Bäcklund Henrik
PLAN; Forsknings- & tillämpningskonferensen 2023, Trollhättan. - 2023 -
Assessing city logistics business models and collaborative stakeholders: Towards sustainable urban
mobility
Konstantina Katsela
The Swedish Transportation Research Conference 2023, October 16-17, 2023, Stockholm. - 2023 -
Hubs and consolidation opportunities: Where next and who is
leading?
Sönke von Wieding, Konstantina Katsela, Lessie Kelli Oliveira
VREF conference on Urban Freight, 18-20 October 2023, Gothenburg - 2023 -
Big data for identifying multi-actor streetside interaction: Towards deconflicting last-mile
deliveries
Jorge Gil, Ivan Sanchez-Diaz, Juan Pablo Castrellon, Konstantina Katsela, Cecilia Bergstad, Jon Williamsson
6th VREF conference on Urban Freight, 18-20 October 2023, Gothenburg. - 2023 -
Multi-stakeholder collaboration on solutions of urban freight last-mile to improve green initiatives of
cities
Konstantina Katsela, Türkan Müge Özbekler
6th VREF conference on Urban Freight, 18-20 October 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden. - 2023 -
Automated Loading and Unloading Operations: A Systematic
Review
Farook Abdullah Sultan, Robin Hanson, Dan Andersson, Mats Johansson, Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Gunnar Stefansson, Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne, Sai Rohan Gowtham Kodati
35th NOFOMA Conference, Helsinki - 2023 -
Automated loading and unloading for trucks – a case study based on the business model
canvas
Michael Browne, Konstantina Katsela, Robin Hanson, Dan Andersson, Mats Johansson, Gunnar Stefansson, Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Farook Abdullah Sultan
VREF conference in Urban Freight, 18-20 October 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2023 -
Electric autonomous and automatic transport and logistics operations, the business
case
Konstantina Katsela
World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2023 Montreal 17-21 July 2023 - 2023 -
Automating Loading and Unloading for Autonomous Transport: Identifying Challenges and Requirements with a Systems
Approach
Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Robin Hanson, Farook Abdullah Sultan, Mats I. Johansson, Dan Andersson, Gunnar Stefansson, Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology - 2023 -
The role of micro-hubs in e-commerce: The lessons learned from three Scandinavian
cases’
Konstantina Katsela
E-commerce conference 2022, June 16-18, 2022, Trondheim Norway - 2022 -
Transport local, think global: a study on urban freight
microhubs
Konstantina Katsela
Northern Lead Day, 21 April, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2022 -
Challenges and requirements in the introduction of automated loading and
unloading
Robin Hanson, Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Michael Browne, Mats Johansson, Gunnar Stefansson, Konstantina Katsela
The Swedish Transportation Research Conference 2022, October 18-19, 2022, Lund Sweden - 2022 -
Critique on best practices for city
logistics
Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne
9th International Urban Freight Conference (INUF), MAY 25-27, 2022, Long Beach California. - 2022 -
The quantity and quality of urban freight data; a critical factor for the potential output of micro-hub
implementation
Konstantina Katsela
The Swedish Transportation Research Conference 2022, October 18-19, 2022, Lund Sweden - 2022 -
Environmental impact and costs of externalities of using urban consolidation centres: a 24-hour observation study with modelling in four
scenarios
Konstantina Katsela, H. Palsson, J. Iverna
International Journal of Logistics-Research and Applications - 2022 -
Defining Urban Freight Microhubs: A Case Study
Analysis
Konstantina Katsela, Şeyma Güneş, Travis Fried, Anne Goodchild, Michael Browne
Sustainability - 2022 -
The key features of implementing a micro-hubs and the opportunity for
scalability
Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne
Swedish Transportation Research Conference 2021 - 2021 -
Viable business models for city logistics: Exploring the cost structure and the economy of scale in a Swedish
initiative
Konstantina Katsela, Henrik Pålsson
Research in Transportation Economics - 2021 -
Towards a Business Model for Viable City Logistics Initiatives : The role of financial continuity, externalities and
stakeholders
Konstantina Katsela
2020 -
Importance of the Stakeholders' Interaction: Comparative, Longitudinal Study of Two City Logistics
Initiatives
Konstantina Katsela, Michael Browne
Sustainability (Switzerland) - 2019 -
A multi-criteria decision model for stakeholder management in city
logistics
Konstantina Katsela, Henrik Pålsson
Research in Transportation Business and Management - 2019 -
The actual environmental effects for city logistics: a scenario
analysis
Konstantina Katsela
NOFOMA 2018 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 30TH ANNUAL NORDIC LOGISTICS RESEARCH : Relevant Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research - Relevant Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research - 2018 -
Evaluation of a city logistics business model: Impact of cost, revenue and goods flow on
profitability
Konstantina Katsela, Henrik Pålsson
NOFOMA 2017 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 29TH ANNUAL NORDIC LOGISTICS RESEARCH - 2017 -
The city logistics-based business model: a series of
components
Konstantina Katsela
ISL 2017 - PROCEEDINGS ON THE 22ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON LOGISTICS - 2017 -
A multi-criteria decision-model for prioritising stakeholder motives in city
logistics
Konstantina Katsela, Henrik Pålsson
NOFOMA 2016 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 28TH ANNUAL NORDIC LOGISTICS RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE - 2016