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Understanding barriers and enablers of electric vehicles in urban freight transport: Addressing stakeholder needs in Turkey

, 2021
Electric Freight Vehicles (EFVs) have a strong potential for urban freight transport and city logistics. Depending on the way electricity is produced, the deployment of EFVs could significantly reduce exhaust emissions and noise pollution in cities ...
Sükrü Imre, Dilay Çelebi, Funda Koca
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An agent-based simulation assessment of freight parking demand management strategies for large urban freight generators

Research in Transportation Business & Management, 2022
A growing body of research looks specifically at freight vehicle parking choices for purposes of deliveries to street retail, and choice impacts on travel time/uncertainty, congestion, and emissions.
A. Alho   +7 more
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Exploring opportunities of using the sharing economy in sustainable urban freight transport

Sustainable cities and society, 2021
Reliance on the sharing economy is becoming crucial to the functioning of modern cities. Certain sharing economy-based solutions can contribute to the development of sustainable urban freight transport by reducing the number of delivery vans in service ...
Roma Strulak-Wójcikiewicz, N. Wagner
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Handbook on City Logistics and Urban Freight

2023
Providing an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of city logistics and urban freight research, this Handbook offers multidisciplinary insights on the key theories, themes and pressing issues common to urban and metropolitan landscapes. Top scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including economics, engineering, business and management, political
Marcucci E., Gatta V., Le Pira M.
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Urban Freight Models

2014
The chapter discusses specific challenges and applications for modelling urban distribution. In fact, the analyses of urban freight transport traditionally focus only on restocking flows and usually neglect shopping flows. But the end-consumer choices in relation to type of purchasing undoubtedly impact on freight distribution flows and the end ...
COMI, ANTONIO, Donnelly, R, Russo, F.
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Bikes for Urban Freight?

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2013
In light of the necessity of reducing motorized road traffic in Europe, above all in city centers, focus is switching more and more to cycle freight. At present there is little research or systematically prepared findings in this area. This paper demonstrates that the use of cycle freight is already widespread, though restricted to larger cities, which
Barbara Lenz, Ernst Riehle
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Light Freight Railway (LFR) as an innovative solution for Sustainable Urban Freight Transport

, 2021
This article discusses the issues of rail freight transport functioning in urban areas. The main purpose of this article is to identify the conditions for implementing the Light Freight Railway (LFR) as an innovative solution for Sustainable Urban ...
Krystian Pietrzak   +2 more
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Urban Freight Transportation: Challenges, Failures and Successes

2015
In this paper, we present the challenges, failures and successes on urban freight transportation. We first identify the various involved stakeholders with their interests. Then we evaluate a large number of urban freight transport initiatives and identify lessons learned, which are distinguished in policy, logistics and technology based views. Further,
Kant, G.   +3 more
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Evaluating problems and measures for a sustainable urban freight transport in Brazilian historical cities

, 2021
Urban freight transport (UFT) poses as a challenge in historical cities given the impacts on cultural heritage. This paper presents retailers’ perceptions about urban freight transport in Brazilian historical cities, characterising current operations ...
Leise Kelli de Oliveira   +5 more
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Analyzing Urban Freight System, Supply Chain Characteristics and Temporal Travel Pattern in Indian context

, 2021
State of the art in understanding the urban freight system is quite challenging in developing countries, and India is one of them. Consequently, there is a paucity of knowledge in comprehending the urban freight system's supply chain characteristics and ...
M. Venkadavarahan, S. Marisamynathan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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