Urban Logistics

by Dela?tre, Loï; c

• ISBN13: 9781118579060
• ISBN10: 1118579062
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2013-05-30
• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE

Summary

This comprehensive book provides an educational tool for engineering and management schools for an efficient implementation of urban logistics. Based on the knowledge gathered by the scientific community over the last 15 years, it encompasses the different fields developed by urban logistics, presents the possible actions to be implemented to improve the system, explores the methods implemented, while using concrete examples, and offers the latest advances in the field. Urban Logistics is an ideal educational tool for engineering and management students and professionals involved in efficient implementation of urban logistics.

Table of Contents

Summary

Introduction

Context and definitions of urban logistics

Definitions of urban logistics

Goods taken into account

Actors involved

Problems

Functional challenges

Economic challenges

Environmental and social challenges

A very diverse issue

An issue at the heart of many contradictions

Conclusion about the context

Approaches and concrete actions

Experimental approaches

European projects

National projects

Local initiatives

Which solutions?

Tools for a local government

For a better use of facilities / intermodality

For an easier access

Developing proximity storage

Using suitable vehicles

Partnerships between actors

Regulating

Qualitative review of results

Possible initiatives for an industrial actor

Night-time deliveries

New technologies to ensure deliveries

Remodeled logistical organization of the last link

Modeling approaches

Specificity of the modeling of the TMV

Retrospection on the modeling of the TMV

Traditional 4-stage model approach

“Trip-based” modeling approaches

“Commodity-Based” modeling approaches

Decision support tools for TMV

WIVER

GOODTRIP

FRETURB

DALSIM

Emerging models of new logistical devices

Conclusion on TMV models and tools

New challenges

The challenge of real estate for local governments

Anticipation for industrialists

Diversity of flows for transport operator

Delivery and certification

Conclusion

Bibliography