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Lieselot Vanhaverbeke is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of autonomous logistics and smart urban mobility. Her work centers on the transformative potential of autonomous delivery solutions, agent-based modeling, and last-mile logistics innovation — areas where she has established herself as a leading voice in contemporary transportation research. Vanhaverbeke's most influential contribution, a 2023 literature review on autonomous delivery solutions for last-mile logistics (100 citations), synthesizes the growing body of evidence supporting autonomous technologies as practical responses to intensifying urban mobility challenges, including emission regulations and surging service demands. Complementing this, her 2021 systematic review of agent-based models for autonomous vehicles in urban logistics (92 citations) broke new ground by identifying opportunities for integrated simulation frameworks, equipping researchers and planners with conceptual tools to model complex urban transport systems more realistically. Her 2023 work applying a modified UTAUT framework to autonomous delivery robots further demonstrates her commitment to understanding adoption barriers among logistics service providers — bridging technical innovation with human and organizational factors. Collectively, her research has garnered nearly 200 citations, reflecting significant influence on how academics and practitioners alike are approaching the future of sustainable, autonomous urban logistics.