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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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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 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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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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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.
Dahlberg, Joen, Engevall, Stefan, Göthe-Lundgren, Maud   +2 more
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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 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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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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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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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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