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Urban freight consultations in the Paris region [PDF]
, 2011 This article describes recent freight consultations in the Paris region (called the Ile de France) and assesses their usefulness to the urban freight policy.
Diana Diziain +2 more
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Exploring the Sustainable Effects of Urban-Port Road System Reconstruction
Energies, 2021 The aim of the research is to identify and quantify the direct sustainable effects resulting from the improved road infrastructure in the local urban-port transport system. This case study considers the city port of Szczecin (Poland).
Dariusz Bernacki, Christian Lis
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Approaching delivery as a service [PDF]
, 2020 This paper explores the new logistics business model of Delivery as a Service, a concept aiming at a more efficient, fast and customer-oriented practice, linking IT solution development, urban logistics operations, supply chain efficiency and new ...
Huschebeck, M. +3 more
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Sustainability Framework for Assessing Urban Freight Transportation Measures [PDF]
Logistics & Sustainable Transport, 2018 Abstract The salient scope of this paper is to enable the knowledge and understanding of urban freight transportation and provide guidance for implementing sustainable policies and measures in a city. To achieve this goal, an evaluation framework for city logistics policies and measures is developed, which demonstrates the complexity ...
Nathanail, Eftihia G. +3 more
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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.
Mrazovic, P. +4 more
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National and international freight transport models: overview and ideas for further development
, 2004 This paper contains a review of the literature on freight transport models, focussing on the types of models that have been developed since the nineties for forecasting, policy simulation and project evaluation at the national and international level ...
de Jong, G., Gunn, H.F., Walker, W.
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DIFFERENT URBAN CONSOLIDATION CENTRE SCENARIOS: IMPACT ON EXTERNAL COSTS OF LAST-MILE DELIVERIES
Transport, 2018 The identification and mitigation of negative externalities from goods deliveries in urban areas are important aspects of sustainable urban development.
Marko Veličković +3 more
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Vulnerable road user safety and freight vehicles: A case study in North Carolina and Tennessee
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2022 Increasing freight traffic has posed greater road safety threats to Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), including pedestrians and bicyclists, in urban communities.
Jueyu Wang +4 more
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The Transportation of Goods at the Heart of Throwing Down the Gauntlet of Algiers Smart City
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2019 At a time when freight transport remains one of the key aspects of the city’s urbanism and contributes greatly to its economic development, its management remains a very complex task.
Ouafa Louafi, Oumaima Louafi
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Consolidation & coordination in urban freight transport [PDF]
, 2017 Due to growing urbanization, fragmentation of freight flows, and increasingly strict delivery conditions, cities around the world have to deal with a vastly increasing number of freight transport flows. Carriers are unable to efficiently bundle these flows, resulting in inefficient urban transport.
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