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Passenger and freight travel patterns: A cluster analysis based on urban networks. [PDF]
PLoS ONEWhile research on population travel patterns and urban networks has been active, it has primarily focused on passenger travel, leaving freight travel relatively underexplored.
Soyeong Lee, Heesun Joo
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Sustainable Urban Freight Systems and Freight Demand Management
Transportation Research Procedia, 2016 AbstractThe paper defines the field of Freight Demand Management (FDM) and positions it in the broad range of public sector initiatives aimed at improving urban freight activity. To illustrate the magnitude of the impacts of FDM, the paper estimates the contributions to freight traffic by the various industry sectors in a sample of metropolitan areas ...
JOSÉ Holguín-Veras +2 more
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Urban freight distribution: council warehouses & freight by rail [PDF]
Transport Problems, 2014 Rail is the one of the highly underused form of freight transportation in the European Union. Majority of the freightage are distributed by trucks and HGVs.
Aleksander SŁADKOWSKI +5 more
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Modeling the Urban Freight-Transportation System Using the System Dynamics Approach
Systems, 2023 The dynamic and complex interactions between the urban freight-transportation system and population, economy, traffic flow, fuel consumption, and environmental pollution, make policymaking in this system one of the fundamental challenges of urban ...
Seyed Ali Ghaemi +1 more
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2023 Supply chains, urban freight logistics and freight transport have been under pressure to improve productivity, quality, and sustainability performance. Conventional methods of practice are unable to respond to this industry’s ever-growing challenges and ...
Douglas Baker +9 more
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Indicators as a Tool for Assessing the Level of Sustainable Urban Freight Logistics
Promet (Zagreb), 2023 Urban transport system planning has been moving towards sustainability in recent years, and the concept of urban freight logistics is an integral part of this planning.
Ladislav Bartuška +3 more
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Freight flows and urban hierarchy [PDF]
Research in Transportation Business & Management, 2014 Varying hierarchy of freight flows between urban areas is the focus of this study. The results of a French survey that describes shipments sent by firms are used for understanding freight flows. The survey shows that the pattern of freight flows between urban areas in France is hierarchical, but varies depending upon whether the flows are generated by ...
Guerrero, David, Proulhac, Laurent
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Barriers to change in urban freight systems: a systematic literature review
European Transport Research Review, 2022 Purpose The purpose of this systematic literature review is to contribute to the knowledge about barriers to change in urban freight systems and to support managed changes toward more sustainable urban freight systems.
Mikael Kervall, Henrik Pålsson
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ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CITY SPRAWL ON URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Architecture and Engineering, 2021 Introduction: In the 21st century, cities in developing countries have witnessed faster growth as compared with cities in developed countries. Countries like India, China and Brazil have one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
Bhavesh Dhonde, Chetan R. Patel
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Urban freight policy maturity and sustainable logistics: are they related?
Journal of Shipping and Trade, 2023 Problems associated with urban freight are well known and documented in the academic literature, particularly with regards to the impact on air quality and general intrusion of public space.
Jonathan Cowie, Keith Fisken
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