Urban Freight Transportation Systems

Most of the world's population now live in cities. This urban growth significantly increases commercial traffic. There are numerous challenges for delivering goods into cities efficiently and sustainably, especially because of increased online retailer deliveries and just-in-time delivery concepts.

Urban Freight Transportation Systems offers new insights into the complexities of today’s urban freight transport system.  It provides a much needed multidisciplinary perspective of researchers from the fields of transportation and traffic planning, logistics and business management as well as engineering. The book examines numerous critical issues such as the strategies for delivery, logistics and freight transport spatial patterns, urban policy assessment, innovative transportation technologies and much more. The book also uniquely examines urban hubs, and factories and their role in the urban freight transport system.

Urban Freight Transportation Systems offers a novel conceptual approach for addressing the problems of production, logistics, and traffic in an urban context.

• Interdiscplinary contributors from around the globe offer a wide range of methodologies
• Includes never-before-published original research to help to keep current and develop a deeper understanding of the field
• Each chapter include the methods and results of the research, useful for both academics and practitioners

Urban Transportation Planning and Logistics researchers, graduate students, and practitioners

Part A: Transportation Planning and Concepts
1. Last mile transport of fragmented deliveries
2. data accuracy for efficient and feasible routing plans
3. intelligent transportation systems for road freight transport
4. Commercial traffic 2.0 –delivery strategies in urban areas
5. Corporate players’ criteria of mobility alternatives
6. Homogenous groups in commercial traffic using cluster analysis
7. Tracking Logistics Locations

Part B: Innovative Technologies and Green Solutions
8. Company Mobility Behavior in urban areas
9. E-Vehicles for innovative and sustainable urban distribution
10. Truck platooning in short distances
11. Mixed freight and passenger rail transport efficiency and impact

Part C: Urban Policies
12. Regulate, stimulate, innovate or co-create in an urban context
13. Urban traffic congestion and freight transport

Part D: Urban Hubs and Factories
14. Demand on user behavior in multi-user warehouses
15. Resource Efficient Factories in Cities
16. High Performance Terminals