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Urban freight micro-regulation: accounting for the heterogeneity of logistics practices in the city

European Transport Research Review
Urban population growth and rising demand for goods—especially from e-commerce—have intensified pressure on city transport systems. Freight vehicles, which make frequent stops and require curbside access, add delays to already congested streets, making ...
Jesús Muñuzuri, Antonio Lorenzo-Espejo, Ana Pegado-Bardayo, María-Luisa Muñoz-Díaz   +3 more
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Smart Urban Logistics and Tube-Based Freight Systems: A Review of Technological Integration and Implementation Barriers

Smart Cities
Background: Smart urban logistics has emerged as a key element of sustainable city development, with direct effects on economic performance, environmental quality, and urban livability.
Fellaki Soumaya, Molk Oukili Garti, Arif Jabir, Jawab Fouad   +3 more
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Optimization of a hierarchical hub and satellite network for urban freight on transit

npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport
Growing urban populations drive the demand for urban goods movement, prompting interest in innovative urban logistics solutions. This study explores integrating passenger and freight transport by using public transport—the urban rail network—for parcel ...
Meijing Zhang, Lynette Cheah
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Reconstruction of delivery positions in the city of Celje, Slovenia [PDF]

Transport Problems, 2013
The paper addresses the problem of the reconstruction and allocation of delivery positions in the urban area. The aim is to achieve the optimal reorganization of urban freight transport in old town core in the municipality of Celje.
Dejan DRAGAN, Tea VIZINGER, Marko INTIHAR, Tomaž KRAMBERGER, Maja FOŠNER, Klemen PRAH   +5 more
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Data collection for microscopic modelling of urban parcel transport to and from establishments – empirical insights into city logistics in the region of Karlsruhe, Germany

Journal of Urban Mobility
City logistics plays a central role in supplying and disposing goods for establishments and residents in urban areas. However, the steadily rising demand for transporting goods puts cities under pressure.
Lukas Barthelmes, Mehmet Emre Görgülü, Martin Kagerbauer, Peter Vortisch   +3 more
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Unveiling the determinants and welfare implications of smallholder maize commercialisation in Africa: a review and future research directions

Cogent Social Sciences
This study synthesises empirical evidence on the determinants and welfare implications of smallholder maize commercialisation in Africa, where maize serves as both a staple food and a source of income.
Angela Burton Mboma, Joachim G. Schäfer, Fredy T. M. Kilima, Alban D. Mchopa   +3 more
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Urban freight consolidation concepts: is there something missing? [PDF]

Transport Problems, 2010
Today, many cities in the world struggle with an increasing demand arising from quick population changes. Most European big cities experience congestions, pollutions, saturations, uncollected waste, public dissatisfaction, and unpleasant environment to ...
Marin MARINOV, Tom ZUNDER, Dewan Md Zahurul ISLAM   +2 more
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Underground Freight Transportation for Package Delivery in Urban Environments

Networks
ABSTRACT The use of underground freight transportation (UFT) is gaining attention because of its ability to quickly move freight to locations in urban areas while reducing road traffic and the need for delivery drivers. Since packages are transported through the tunnels by electric motors, the use of tunnels is also environmentally ...
Sarah Powell, Ann Melissa Campbell, Mojtaba Hosseini   +2 more
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Urban freight distribution: council warehouses & freight by rail [PDF]

Transport Problems, 2014
Rail is the one of the highly underused form of freight transportation in the European Union. Majority of the freightage are distributed by trucks and HGVs.
Aleksander SŁADKOWSKI, Rui DANTAS, Cristian MICU, Giritharan SEKAR, Alfredo ARENA, Vatsal SINGHANIA   +5 more
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Bottom-up analysis for carbon emissions from passenger and freight transport sectors in Xi’an: a city-level study using MOVES and LMDI models

Environmental Research Communications
Road transportation is identified as one of the primary contributors to urban carbon emissions. This study employed a localized MOVES model, integrating high-resolution urban vehicle data, along with a categorical LMDI decomposition model, to conduct a ...
Ya’nan Bo, Liyuan Zhang, Jiahao Zhong, Wei Zhong, Pengyue Zhu   +4 more
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