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Overview of urban freight transport modelling

2023
Transport and ...
Tavasszy, Lorant (author), de Bok, M.A. (author)   +1 more
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Sustainable urban freight transport: A simheuristic approach

2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2017
In modern society, sustainable transportation practices in smart cities are becoming increasingly important for both companies and citizens. This paper addresses a rich extension of the capacitated vehicle routing problem, which considers sustainability indicators and stochastic traveling times.
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Urban Freight Distribution: Urban Supply Chains and Transportation Policies

2013
The chapter moves from the belief that adopting a supply chain approach is crucial to understand how urban freight distribution works and what will be the impact of the various potential urban transport policies on supply chain performance. According to a recent strand of the literature, the chapter aims at (a) characterizing the urban supply chains ...
DANIELIS, ROMEO, Elena Maggi, ROTARIS, LUCIA, VALERI, EVA   +3 more
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Planning for Urban Freight Transport: An Overview

Transport Reviews, 2015
Urban freight transport is essential to the functioning of cities, but is also an activity that affects the urban environment and communities. Yet, freight is often overlooked in discussions of urban transport, in contrast to passenger modes. Much freight research emphasises questions of operations and network management but is less attentive to the ...
Cui, Jenny, Dodson, Jago, Hall, Peter V.
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Intelligent urban freight transportation

2017
Efficient freight movement is an essential factor not only in urban transportation but also in social and economic development as well as environmental considerations. The growth of worldwide trade will significantly increase traffic congestion and air pollution due to existing congestion in current urban transportation infrastructures especially in ...
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Robotisation of urban freight transport

2018
This paper aims to research the developments and innovations in urban freight transport. Thereafter it focuses on the future and implications of robotisation in this field. The developments in urban freight transport from a logistics service provider perspective are based on the constraints space, legitimacy and resources.
van der Kaauwen, Gwynne (author), van Duin, Ron (author)   +1 more
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Relevance of Urban Freight Transport Modelling Towards the Challenges of Urban Freight Policy

2018
The main objective of this paper is to investigate how recent trends in urban freight transport analysis and modelling are related to urban freight measures set out in Gdynia’s 2016 Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan. Building on the literature, a review framework was defined including (1) stakeholders, (2) descriptors, (3) objectives and (4) solution ...
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The geography of urban freight. In : The geography of urban transportation

2014
This paper provides a review of the current trends in city logistics and underlines the diversity in which urban freight distribution takes place. Urban freight distribution is prone to a wide array of externalities, namely congestion, pollution and community disruptions, which city logistics tries to mitigate.
Dablanc, Laetitia, Rodrigue, Jean Paul
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Air Freight and Urban Transport Planning

SAE Technical Paper Series, 1968
<div class="htmlview paragraph">The growth rate of air freight transportation closely follows the growth rate of manufactured products. At present, 1% of all manufactured products shipped internationally are transported by air (the comparable figure for all commodities is 0.05%). This tonnage represents 12% of the value of manufactured goods.
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Urban Logistics and Freight Transport

2021
Michael Browne, José Holguin-Veras, Julian Allen   +2 more
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