Introducing competition in urban consolidation center freight allocation modeling

Urban consolidation center (UCC) represents in many cities the most chosen solution by the local governments to reduce the negative impacts of city freight distribution. In order to achieve successful results, it is important to consider also the perspective of carriers with respect to the choice of facility location and the evaluation of costs....

Introducing competition in urban consolidation centre freight allocation modelling

Innovations in intermodal freight transport: Lessons from Europe

Over the last two decades many innovations in intermodal freight transport have been proposed to boost the market share of intermodal transport. However, only few of them have materialized. In this paper we explore why innovations in intermodal transport are difficult to realize and how barriers for their successful implementation could be...

About quality of semantic data for the city logistics domain: A comparison with the stakeholders' perspectives

City logistics is characterized as a distributed decision making system due to its heterogeneous stakeholders and their conflicting objectives. To understand the complexity of interactions among these stakeholders, the first step is taken by developing an ontology for city logistics domain. Ontology is a powerful way to express domain knowledge...

Towards E(lectric)-urban freight: First promising steps in the electronic vehicle revolution

City Logistics Modeling Efforts: Trends and Gaps - A Review

In this paper, we present a review of city logistics modeling efforts reported in the literature for urban freight analysis. The review framework takes into account the diversity and complexity found in the present-day city logistics practice. Next, it covers the different aspects in the modeling selection process that includes (1) the...

Logistics Concept Development in Multi-Actor Environments

Logistics has become a field of growing interest for public policy making over recent decades. Logistics has a great impact on society. Due to these societal impacts there is a need for a more explicit intervention by governmental policies. This development demonstrates that the growing importance of transition and innovation in logistic...

Selection of City Distribution Locations in Urbanized Areas

This paper aims to apply a preference method for selecting optimal city distribution reloading locations in urbanized areas. The focus in the optimization is on trucks entering the urbanized area where the truck can choose between at least two locations with similar distances determined by a specified integer value generated randomly by a given...

Towards an Agent-Based Modelling Approach for the Evaluation of Dynamic Usage of Urban Distribution Centres

Previous modelling attempts show that theoretically the urban distribution centre appears to be successful in many cases, which is in sharp contrast with the real world showing the fact that only 15 out of 200 urban distribution centres are running after 5 years. It can be concluded that modeling approaches do not seem to predict well with...

The influence of road pricing on physical distribution in urban areas

The Dutch government decided to implement a road pricing system called, ‘paying differently for mobility’. The main idea is that road users have to pay for using the road infrastructure instead of for owning a car. In the future, the price per kilometre will also depend on the time of the day and the location of the travel. Crowded locations and...

How efficient is city logistics? Estimating ecological footprints for urban freight deliveries

In medium and large cities, the delivery of goods represents a significant contribution to the problems of congestion, lack of parking, pollution and energy consumption. The characteristics of this type of transport are also very different from passenger mobility, even though they are often assimilated, due to the lack of specific tools for...

New challenges for urban consolidation centres: A case study in The Hague

The objective of this research is to advice the Municipality of The Hague whether, if and under which conditions, the implementation of an Urban Consolidation Centre (UCC) is possible and desirable. To determine factors that caused the success or failure of UCCs in practice, a survey of 6 cases in Europe is conducted. The cases were selected...