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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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Behavioral Modeling of Urban Freight Transport

2013
Decision makers in urban goods movement (UGM) typically need to assess the impact new policy interventions might have on freight distribution. The effects of policy changes are inextricably related with the extant regulatory framework that also influences the relationships among the various actors interacting along the supply chain.
MARCUCCI, EDOARDO, GATTA, VALERIO
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Urban Freight Transport in the 1980s

1981
In the previous chapters we have been concerned with setting out details of the nature of the urban freight transport market and with outlining an economic and operational framework within which its performance may be studied. This chapter is somewhat different.
K. J. Button, A. D. Pearman
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The Economics and Planning of Urban Freight Transport

2021
This article will provide an overview of the economics of urban freight transport (UFT), focusing on the efficiency and sustainability of solutions, which can be guaranteed only via an appropriate planning and coordination between public and private interests.
Marcucci E., Gatta V., Le Pira M.
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The Costs of Urban Freight Transport

1981
In Chapter 2 we discussed how the volume and pattern of freight operations is likely to be influenced strongly by the interplay of economic factors. One of the chief of these economic factors is cost. In this chapter, we shall be concerned with the costs of urban freight movement.
K. J. Button, A. D. Pearman
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Consolidation in Urban Freight Transportation — Cost Allocation Models

Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 2018
In this paper, the focus is on the role of the municipality, as an enabler of a collaboration between freight forwarders and the municipality in which the consolidation of goods is considered as a means for goods flow improvement in urban freight transportation.
Joen Dahlberg   +2 more
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Urban Freight Transport: The Challenge of Sustainability

2011
City distribution plays a key role in supporting urban lifestyles, helping to serve and retain industrial and trading activities, and contributing to the competitiveness of regional industry. Despite these positive effects, it also generates negative (economic, environmental and social) impacts on cities worldwide.
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Impact of Telematics on Efficiency of Urban Freight Transport

2013
The need for telematics solutions to support goods transport and distribution in urban areas is mainly due to the complexity of the processes in urban transport systems and the often conflicting expectations of different groups of road users and other stakeholders of urban freight transport (city administrators, residents, traders, hauliers, etc.). The
Stanislaw Iwan   +2 more
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