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Emerging trends for urban freight transport-The potential for sustainable micromobility. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 AimActive transportation referring to non-motorized modes of transport is promoted and popularized both in practice and in the scientific literature, while their use for urban freight transport has been largely neglected. Thus the main scope of the paper
Jagienka Rześny-Cieplińska +3 more
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Microsimulation-Based Collaboration Model for Urban Freight Transport [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2020 The different stakeholders involved in urban freight transport, their behaviours, and interactions are attracting the attention of researchers and practitioners in logistics and freight transport, pushed by the need to develop methods and models for ...
Cristian Giovanny Gomez-Marin +3 more
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A Focus on Railway Shift in Urban Freight Transport: Scenarios and Applications
Future TransportationThis research germinates from the statement that cities need to solve the impacts caused by freight transport to improve their sustainability by implementing a set of city logistic measures.
Antonio Comi, Olesia Hriekova
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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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Promet (Zagreb), 2023 Freight transport significantly contributes to urban traffic but is often overlooked by decision-makers compared to passenger transport. Conventional transportation modelling studies often use aggregate approaches for freight transport, undoubtedly due ...
Berna Aksoy, Mustafa Gursoy
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Understanding and Predicting Trends in Urban Freight Transport [PDF]
2017 18th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2017 Among different components of urban mobility, urban freight transport is usually considered as the least sustainable. Limited traffic infrastructures and increasing demands in dense urban regions lead to frequent delivery runs with smaller freight vehicles.
Petar Mrazovic +4 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 The healthy development of railway container transport is an important part of railway freight transport and is key for promoting the green transformation of China's transport and supporting a new pattern of transport development.
Zhizhen Bai +7 more
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An Evaluation of Ireland’s Sustainable Freight Transport Policy
Logistics, 2022 Background: The Irish government has put forth sustainable transport policy measures, yet the emphasis is mainly on the active travel and sustainable mobility for passenger transport.
Xu Zhang +2 more
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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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Exploring the effects of economic crisis in road transport: The case of Greece
International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 2018 The transport sector is closely related to the economy of a country. This mainly applies to urban areas, which play an essential economic role in a country’s GDP. According to the EC’s Green Paper 2007 for urban mobility, approximately 1% of the EU’s GDP
Tatiana Moschovou, Yannis Tyrinopoulos
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