Innovations in City Logistics

by Taniguchi, Eiichi; Thompson, Russell G.

• ISBN13: 9781604567250
• ISBN10: 1604567252
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-30
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

Summary

This book highlights recent developments and advances in city logistics. City logistics is a relatively new area of urban study and urban management. The goal of city logistics is to establish efficient, safe and environmentally friendly urban freight transport systems using advanced information communication technology. This book covers modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics measures including co-operative freight transport systems, consolidated city distribution centres, advanced vehicle routing and scheduling using intelligent transport systems, load factor controls, road pricing, intelligent parking controls, pickup points for e-commerce. Modelling and analysing the Planning and efficient management of city logistics schemes is essential because there are multiple stakeholders who are involved in urban freight transport issues. Therefore, public-private partnerships and other management methodology will be discussed. As well, the book contains several case studies of urban freight transport policies which have been already implanted in some cities in Europe, United States and the Asia Pacific region.

Table of Contents

Preface; Modelling the behavior of stakeholders in city logistics; City access restrictions and the implications for goods deliveries; City logistics over the years… Lessons learned, research directions and interests; An investigation into the attitudinal factors determining participation in cooperative multi-carrier delivery initiatives; Economy of scale and the role of publicly available congestion information for the local delivery industry: an agent-based simulation approach; The potential use of urban consolidation centres in the hotel industry in London; Revival of cost benefit analysis for evaluating the city distribution center concept?; 8 Sustainable goods supply and transport in conurbations: Freight patterns and developments in Switzerland; Challenging the traditional scope of solving vehicle routing and scheduling; A hybrid genetic algorithm for VRPSTW using column generation; Provision of real-time traffic information for VRPTW model; A macroscopic traffic simulator for evaluating urban transport measures for heavy vehicles; Urban freight policy-oriented modelling in Europe; Melbourne freight movement model; Modeling logistics location choice and truck route choice behavior by Tokyo metropolitan region freight survey; A hybrid microsimulation model of freight flows; An investigation into the delivery of goods to the city centre of Liege; Typology of efforts by Japanese companies to address logistics-related environmental issues; Policy making in Germany -- Integrated commercial traffic concept of Berlin; An evaluation of recent pick-up point experiments in European cities: The rise of two competing models?; Reserved areas for logistics activities in the metropolitan zone of Mexico city; Customized policies for sustainable urban distribution; Metropolitan freight distribution by railways; A practical approach to solving the "just in time" periodic transportation problem; Quantifying the effects of community level regulation on city logistics; Urban freight transport and logistics: Retailer's choices; Studying distribution in Tokyo metropolitan region using a local freight survey; An analysis on bottlenecks for domestic vehicular transportation of international maritime container cargos in Japanese hinterland; Citylogcopy;, a software tool for city logistics operation: Testing and validation activities; Supply-chain logistics for retailing, from the standpoint of resource productivity: Researching a comprehensive evaluation method; Light freight transport in urban areas; Elements for a master plan in urban logistics; New trends on distribution in the metropolitan zone of Mexico city; A centre for eco-friendly city freight distribution: Urban logistics innovation in a mid-size historical city in Italy; The conditions of modal shift in dense urban areas; A case study of urban freight in Mexico; A probabilistic bi-level optimization approach to highway infrastructure maintenance in urban areas; Index.