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- The propensity of large urban areas to have high congestion levels challenges a key issue in logistics, which is the reliability of distribution. This is particularly the case for the disruptions and lower driving speeds that urban congestion imposes, making urban freight distribution prone to inefficiencies.
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Key Issues in Urban Freight Transportation. Capacity of urban freight transport systems (congestion). Lower driving speeds and frequent disruptions (reliability). Distribution sprawl (space consumption). Smaller volumes and time-sensitive freight (frequency and repetitiveness). Cold chain (shipment integrity).
- Urban Transport Challenges
As freight traffic commonly shares infrastructures...
- Urban Transport Challenges
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- Logistics
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Governmental policies often result in a deterioration of the carriers’ logistical performance. Many policy actions strongly focus on regulations and sanctions to force carriers to cooperate. Regulations, like vehicle restrictions and time-window access, result in a negative impact on the accessibility of cities, on the environment, and on the logis...
Carrier cooperation initiatives mainly focus on improvements in the logistical operations and have only an economic incentive rather than a sustainability incentive. Based on the limited number of implemented initiatives in practice, a real incentive for carriers appears to be lacking. This type of initiative asks for alignment between the logistic...
There are different initiatives that are based on ICT and ITS developments, also outside the urban freight transport area. The main idea of vehicle routing improvement initiatives is to better incorporate real-life problems and, by using the newest optimization technology, to reduce the number of kilometers travelled and the related emission. The i...
- Goos Kant, Hans Quak, R Peeters, van T Tom Woensel
- 2016
City logistics requires an understanding of urban geography and supply chain management. Urban freight distribution has a unique array of challenges as a multidisciplinary field. It reflects many dimensions of contemporary logistics, such as route and delivery sequence selection.
- Urban Transportation at the Crossroads. Cities are locations having a high level of accumulation and concentration of economic activities. They are complex spatial structures supported by infrastructures, including transport systems.
- Automobile Dependency. Automobile use is related to a variety of advantages, such as on-demand mobility, comfort, status, speed, and convenience. These advantages jointly illustrate why automobile ownership continues to grow worldwide, especially in urban areas and developing economies.
- Congestion. Congestion occurs when transport demand exceeds transport supply at a specific point in time and in a specific section of the transport system.
- Mitigating Urban Congestion. The first assumption in mitigating congestion concerns if some trips are necessary, which is a decision left to the user.
Nov 5, 2008 · One of the major problems for cities to achieve sustainability is urban freight transport. However, city planning is focused primarily on passenger transport. Freight is primarily a business-to-bus...
- Sönke Behrends, Maria Lindholm, Johan Woxenius
- 2008
Sep 3, 2015 · Urban Freight Transportation: Challenges, Failures and Successes. September 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22288-2_8. In book: Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation - Bridging the Gap Between...
Oct 7, 2024 · These three lessons on collecting, accessing and sharing urban freight data could inspire Global South public-private sustainable transport collaborations.
