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Vulnerable road user safety and freight vehicles: A case study in North Carolina and Tennessee
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2022 Increasing freight traffic has posed greater road safety threats to Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), including pedestrians and bicyclists, in urban communities.
Jueyu Wang +4 more
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Plan for sustainable urban logistics – comparing between Scandinavian and UK practices
European Transport Research Review, 2017 Introduction Common practices in current urban logistics planning in Scandinavia and the UK, and the degree to which SUTP (Sustainable Urban Transport Plan), SUMP (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) and SULP (Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans) guidelines ...
Karin Fossheim, Jardar Andersen
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Energy Efficiency Assessment of Rail Freight Transport: Freight Tram in Berlin
Energies, 2021 Freight tram systems can potentially reduce commercial road vehicle use and, consequently, reduce congestion, accidents, air pollution, noise levels, and road maintenance costs.
Mohammad Vajihi, Stefano Ricci
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Urban freight consultations in the Paris region [PDF]
European Transport Research Review, 2011 This article describes recent freight consultations in the Paris region (called the Ile de France) and assesses their usefulness to the urban freight policy. The Ile de France is one of 22 French regions, and is one of the largest and most developed metropolitan areas in Europe.
Dablanc, L, Diziain, D, Levifve, H
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The freight landscape: Convergence and divergence in urban freight distribution
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2017 The paper introduces the concept of the freight landscape: the spatial distribution of freight activity and intensity in a metropolitan area. Using population and employment density information, a freight landscape matrix is calculated for four major metropolitan areas: New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Seoul.
Rodrigue, Jean Paul +2 more
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Evaluation of urban freight transport operations in Surakarta city
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 In an effort to monitor and control the urban freight transport, the Municipal Government of Surakarta City issue a dispensation license for freight vehicles through the inner-city road. Nevertheless, the facts indicate that traffic violations by freight
Budi Yulianto
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Adoption of environmentally friendly urban freight logistics practices: the role of communication and governance [PDF]
Urbanization, Sustainability and SocietyPurpose – Environmental emissions are increasing in the urban areas. Much of the emissions arise from public procurement activities given that public sector firms are major customers to many supplying firms.
Sheila Namagembe, Shamim Nantumbwe
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International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 2022 The objective of this study is to develop the Freight Trip Generation (FTG) models concerning establishment classification process for estimating freight trip activity.
Marimuthu Venkadavarahan +1 more
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Transport, 2018 Cities’ sustainability strategies seem to aim at the reduction of the negative impacts of urban freight transport. In the past decades, many public and private initiatives have struggled to gain broad stakeholder support and thus remain viable ...
Ron van Duin +3 more
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Data stories from urban loading bays
European Transport Research Review, 2017 Purpose Freight vehicle parking facilities at large urban freight traffic generators, such as urban retail malls, are often characterized by a high volume of vehicle arrivals and a poor parking supply infrastructure.
Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Lynette Cheah
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