Using information gathered from some 30 UK surveys undertaken over the last 15years, this
paper provides planners with an understanding of road-based urban retail freight transport …

Megacities in emerging markets are a relatively new phenomenon. The size of these cities
combined with the high growth rates provides substantial sustainability challenges. Urban …

City Logistics: Mapping The Future examines the key concepts of city logistics along with the
associated implementation issues, methodologies, and policy measures. Chronicling the …

Around the world, interest in urban and metropolitan goods movements is increasing since
they account for a substantial share of traffic in urban/metropolitan areas. In this context …

Although our urbanized civilization requires freight transport in order to sustain it, urban
freight transport is especially recognized for its unsustainable impacts. To reduce the …

A new urban consolidation centre, called Binnenstadservice. nl ('Inner city service'), started
business in April 2008 in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. The consolidation centre in Nijmegen …

Today, transportation of freight by trucks and vans faces congestion within most of the
urbanized areas around the world, making supply chains less efficient and causing air …

Local governments in Western Europe increasingly use city time-access regulations to
improve social sustainability. These regulations significantly influence the distribution …

A range of solutions have been developed to improve the sustainability of city logistics.
However, their implementations are sometimes failing. Involving stakeholders in the …

Breakthrough innovations, whether technological, organizational or both, are a necessity if
the market share of intermodal freight transport is to expand. The main growth potential lies …