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SystemsThe integration of passenger and freight transport by urban–rural buses is an effective approach to address two critical issues: the inefficiency of parcel delivery services and the financial struggles of public transport operators.
Xiaoting Shang +3 more
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European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2002 To write a book with such a special subject as City Logistics is not an easy venture. But Taniguchi, Thompson, Yamada and van Duin succeeded to submit a scientifically sound report of this subject, where the main stress is centred on the modelling of ...
Uwe Köhler
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Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel +2 more
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How is own account transport well adapted to urban environments? [PDF]
Own account transport is commercially invisible but its importance in urban freight is significant: it represents half of deliveries. Generally research efforts focus mainly on third-party transportation because data is more available in spite of a lack ...
Cecilia Cruz
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The Role of Urban Consolidation Centres in Sustainable Freight Transport
, 2012 The chapter considers the role that urban consolidation centres (UCCs) can play in helping to reduce goods vehicle traffic and its environmental impacts in urban areas.
Jacques Leonardi +4 more
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Road transport and urban logistics
, 2023 This chapter provides an overview of road freight activities in urban areas. Urban road freight transport is essential to the economic prosperity and liveability of towns and cities.
Piecyk, M., Allen, J.
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African Twist of Circular Economy: Insights, Policies and Recommendations
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the circular economy (CE) has gained traction, this paper argues that mainstream CE approaches risk being misaligned in the African context. Drawing on a mixed‐methods synthesis of empirical studies, policy documents and cross‐country examples, the study shows that Africa's CE transition is fragmented and uneven, leaving the continent at
Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie +4 more
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How to Improve the Capture of Urban Goods Movement Data? [PDF]
The surveys specifically focused on the thorough knowledge of urban freight transport appeared about ten years ago. The local problematic of goods transport at local level was partially taken into account by the city planners and by the researchers ...
Danièle Patier, Jean-Louis Routhier
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Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.A systems‐based framework integrates nine dimensions of CCU assessment with multi‐criteria scoring, weighting, scenario analysis, and dynamic weighting to support context‐sensitive decision‐making. ABSTRACT Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies are increasingly recognized as key instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions while ...
Afshin Poorkhanalikoudehi +4 more
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Survey and Modelling in Urban Freight Transport
, 1995 Introduction. - The rise of congestion problems in urban surroundings and the environmental problems they induce need the definition of a global policy including the freight.For the last few years, several attempts have been done in some European countries to control the goods distribution in the cities:- in switzerland, the "Energie 2000" program ...
Le Nir, Michel, Routhier, Jean-Louis
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