Urban Freight Transportation Systems
Published on 28. September 2019
316 pages
978-0-12-817363-3 (ISBN)
Description
Urban Freight Transportation Systems offers new insights into the complexities of today's urban freight transport system. It provides a much needed multidisciplinary perspective from researchers in not only transportation, but also engineering, business management, planning and the law. The book examines numerous critical issues, such as strategies for delivery, logistics and freight transport spatial patterns, urban policy assessment, innovative transportation technologies, urban hubs, and the role factories play in the urban freight transport system. The book offers a novel conceptual approach for addressing the problems of production, logistics and traffic in an urban context.
As most of the world's population now live in cities, thus significantly increasing commercial traffic, there are numerous challenges for efficiently and sustainably delivering goods into cities. This book provides solutions and tactics to those challenges.
- Includes interdisciplinary contributors from around the globe
- Provides never-before-published original research to help users stay current and develop a deeper understanding of the field
- Presents the methods and results of research that is useful for both academics and practitioners
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Ralf Elbert | Christian Friedrich | Manfred Boltze
Urban Freight Transportation Systems
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09/2019
Elsevier
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Content
Introduction: Emerging Issues in Urban Freight Transportation Systems - Introduction and Overview of the Book
Part A: Land-use and Urban Production1. Logistics Locations Patterns - Distance-based methods for relative industrial concentration measurement applied to the region of Berlin-Brandenburg2. Developing a pricing model for promoting coordinated resource demand in cooperative warehouses3. Urban Factories - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Resource Efficiency
Part B: Logistics Concepts and Urban Freight Transportation4. Improving cost efficiency and environmental impact through the integration of light freight and passenger railway transport and last mile distribution analysis5. Commercial traffic 2.0 - Analysis and recommendations of delivery strategies for the package delivery industry in urban areas6. The impact of data accuracy for efficient and feasible routing plans7. Last mile transport of fragmented deliveries: delivery preferences of nanostoreowners8. The Development and Status Quo of Freight Transport in China9. Transshipment Hub Automation in China's CEP sector
Part C: Application of New Technologies and Deployment of Electric Vehicles10. Scenario-based development of Intelligent Transportation Systems for road freight transport in Germany11. Assessing the potential of truck platooning in short distances: the case study of Portugal12. E-vehicles for urban logistics - why is it not happening yet? - requirements of an innovative and sustainable urban logistics concept13. Mobility behavior of companies in urban areas: A triangulation approach to explore the potential for BEV14. Enhancing the potential for BEV by identifying behaviorally homogenous groups in commercial trafficConclusion: Urban Freight Transportation Systems: Current Trends and Prospects for the Future
