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LogisticsBackground: Urban freight transport has recently garnered significant attention from both professionals and academics due to its pivotal role in fostering economic and social development. Despite notable progress, this sector faces challenges that hinder
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Towards a Sustainable Urban Freight Transport and Urban Distribution
Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering, 2013 Abstract—The objectives of this paper are to: a) develop a comprehensive sustainability impact assessment framework, aiming to improve the use of urban freight transportation in terms of modes, b) support showcasing of urban distribution fleet from a logistics provider and c) apply the proposed sustainability impact assessment framework for the ...
Eftihia G. Nathanail +1 more
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A review of the success and failure of tram systems to carry urban freight: the implications for a low emission intermodal solution using electric vehicles on trams [PDF]
, 2013 This paper considers the potential use of trams and Electric D istribution V ehicles ( E DV s ) as cargo carriers in intermodal urban freight distribution.
Arvidsson, Niklas, Browne, Michael
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The EU Cities Mission: A Governance Innovation for Stockholm?
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Acknowledging that cities play a key role in climate change mitigation, the European Union (EU) launched the Cities Mission in 2021 to accelerate urban climate action. Intended as a governance innovation, it seeks to stimulate mission‐oriented governance in cities.
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Internal report cluster 1: Urban freight innovations and solutions for sustainable deliveries (1/4) [PDF]
, 2013 Technical report about sustainable urban freight solutions, part 1 of
Allen, J. +5 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The sound formation of robust environmental policies is increasingly important for low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) to achieve their national objectives and international commitments. However, policy implementation can be complex, and environmental policies may not be prioritised given other critical socio‐economic development issues ...
Rebecca K. M. Clube, Julia Tomei
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Sustainable FuturesUrban freight systems are essential to economic activity but generate significant environmental, spatial, and social pressures, particularly in rapidly growing cities.
Tarak Barhoumi +2 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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Governing Within the Constraints of Carbon Budgets: Regional Insights From Sweden
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Staying within the limits of a rapidly shrinking global carbon budget while avoiding dependency on negative emissions technologies and carbon dioxide removal remains a significant challenge in a multi‐level governance system, where resources and responsibilities are dispersed among different actors.
Paula Lenninger, Magdalena Kuchler
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Research of the potential opportunities of crowdshipping: The case study of Ukraine and the Czech Republic [PDF]
MATEC Web of ConferencesUrbanization and the growth of e-commerce are the main factors behind the growth of last-mile delivery volumes. Crowdshipping using the public transport system is one of the relatively new scenarios for the organization of such delivery.
Svadlenka Libor +2 more
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