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Sustainable FuturesUrban freight systems are essential to economic activity but generate significant environmental, spatial, and social pressures, particularly in rapidly growing cities.
Tarak Barhoumi +2 more
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, 2023 FTG has resulted in a powerful tool to provide insights into freight transport demand that support planning and policy design processes. The chapter introduces a taxonomy of the FTG research field and a discussion of considerations for applicability ...
Sanchez-Diaz, Ivan, +3 more
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Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.Abstract Leaf‐litter decomposition is a key indicator of the functional integrity of stream ecosystems and cotton strips have been employed as a standard substrate for quantification of litter‐decomposition rates in streams across the globe. Cotton strips also offer a standardized method for assessing structural integrity of stream microbial ...
Trinity Shoemaker +4 more
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Urban freight transport sustainability – assessment and evaluation framework
, 2013 Research purpose: Various urban freight transport measures have been introduced in order to improve logistics performance while at the same time reducing the negative environmental and socio-economic impacts.
Behrends, Sönke,
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Leveraging Public Transit for Robotic Deliveries: A Column Generation Approach
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.ABSTRACT Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are small, electric, wheeled vehicles that operate at pedestrian speeds. In the last‐mile delivery service considered in this study, a fleet of AMRs is deployed across multiple recharging depots within a service area, from which they depart to perform point‐to‐point deliveries. We consider an operational setting
Yishay Shapira, Mor Kaspi
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Research of the potential opportunities of crowdshipping: The case study of Ukraine and the Czech Republic [PDF]
MATEC Web of ConferencesUrbanization and the growth of e-commerce are the main factors behind the growth of last-mile delivery volumes. Crowdshipping using the public transport system is one of the relatively new scenarios for the organization of such delivery.
Svadlenka Libor +2 more
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CO2 Emission Reduction in Freight Transports How to Stimulate Environmental Friendly Behaviour? [PDF]
In the European Union (EU) and in Germany the transport sector is the only sector with increasing CO2 emissions (in the EU by about 32 % and in Germany by about 1 % since 1990).
Bühler, Georg, Jochem, Patrick
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An overview of freight intelligent transportation systems [PDF]
, 2013 The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of how the intelligent transportation system (ITS) supports freight transportation operations. A study of the literature on transportation information and communication technology (ICT) and intelligent (
Mirza Beiki, Vahid, +2 more
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Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.ABSTRACT Distributed manufacturing enabled by additive manufacturing (AM) allows supply chains to rapidly adapt to changing market conditions through flexible facility relocation and capacity adjustment. However, existing studies largely overlook the logistical aspects of AM‐based supply chains and typically treat facility location and logistics ...
Behrang Bootaki, Guoqing Zhang
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The Demand Potential of an Urban Freight Consolidation Centre [PDF]
Urban Transport, stated preferences, service contract.
Romeo Danielis, Edoardo Marcucci
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