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This paper presents a traffic simulation framework to reproduce urban freight movements, particularly concerning double-parked delivery operations. Since freight movements affect traffic and vice versa, we propose a hybrid framework that simulates traffic phenomena macroscopically and, at the same time, allows tracking delivery vehicles along their routes throughout the entire simulation. The traffic simulation framework is based on the Lighthill–Whitham–Richards macroscopic model as well as the theory of bottlenecks. The traffic component of the model can be coupled with a generic parking model. Since a novel faster version of the Lax-Hopf Formula is used in the traffic simulation, the proposed framework can perform efficient simulations. Because of this hybrid nature, the framework is suitable for simulations of large scenarios and for evaluations of City Logistic measures to tackle the last-mile problem. We …