scholarly journals A Conceptual Model Based on the Activity System and Transportation System for Sustainable Urban Freight Transport

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5642
Author(s):  
Demostenis Ramos Cassiano ◽  
Bruno Vieira Bertoncini ◽  
Leise Kelli de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Activity System ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Urban Freight Transport ◽  
Cyclical Process ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

Urban freight transport (UFT) is simultaneously responsible for maintaining the urban lifestyle and the negative externalities impacting urban areas, necessitating strategies that promote sustainable urban freight transport (SUFT). In addition, the stakeholders and geographic factors involved in UFT impose specific concerns in the planning and operation stages of SUFT. Therefore, this paper proposes a model addressing sustainable last-mile delivery considering the relationship between the activity system, transportation system, and stakeholders involved in UFT. Based on the literature review, we identified UFT planning procedures to achieve SUFT. In a cyclical process, these procedures were considered on the proposed model, integrating freight transport planning with urban planning to develop SUFT and, consequently, sustainable cities.

scholarly journals RESEARCHES ON URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORT IN THE MEXICAN CITY OF QUERETARO: From central to peri-urban areas

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Betanzo-Quezada ◽  
José A. Romero-Navarrete; Saúl A. Obregón-Biosca
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Urban Freight Transport

While in developed countries the effects of urban freight transport on congestion levels, environment and quality of life of the population have been recognized and studied, in Latin American countries a limited amount of reports have been produced on this issue, focusing only on major urban agglomerations and capital cities. The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the results and the key analytical concepts supporting a research work carried out in the Queretaro Metropolitan Area, within the 2003−2014 period. The methodological approach considered includes a multi-year research effort for creating analytical tools and evaluation methods. As a result of this effort, urban freight related issues have been characterized in a context of urban and peri-urban interacting environments for a medium-sized city. The resulting methods and tools can now be used for studying metropolitan areas on a nation-wide basis.

scholarly journals How to make urban freight transport by tram successful?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrien De Langhe ◽  
Hilde Meersman ◽  
Christa Sys ◽  
Eddy Van de Voorde ◽  
Thierry Vanelslander
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Urban Freight Transport

AbstractMany national and international bodies, such as the European Commission, encourage the use of environment-friendly transport modes. Local and national authorities take more and more measures, for instance road pricing, loading/unloading spaces and low-emission zones, to prevent negative transport-related externalities in urban areas. Hence, transport and logistics operators consider alternative ways to deliver goods in urban areas by using electric vehicles, cargo bikes, inland vessels and rail transport. Which of these alternative modes is appropriate for which transport flow depends on multiple factors, including the available transport infrastructure, the goods volume, the measures taken by the authorities and the presence of congestion. This paper focuses on urban freight transport by tram and the conditions for a successful implementation. A successful implementation is defined as an implementation that is viable, i.e. the difference between the change of the costs and the change of the benefits exceeds a certain threshold value. The viability is studied from a business-economic and a socio-economic perspective for a dedicated freight tram, a freight wagon behind a passenger tram and the transport of parcels by a passenger tram. A viability model is developed, based on a social cost-benefit analysis. The working of this model is illustrated by applying it to the city of Antwerp. The main findings show that the use of a freight wagon attached to a passenger tram provides more potential than a dedicated freight tram. A courier taking the tram to deliver some parcels can be viable as well. For all three types of tram transport, the socio-economic benefits exceed the business-economic ones. Critical factors affecting the viability include the transported volume, the efficiency of the current road transport, the timing of the transport, the need for post-haulage and the operational costs of both road and rail.

scholarly journals Trends of Environmentally Sustainable Solutions of Urban Last-Mile Deliveries on the E-Commerce Market—A Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5894
Author(s):  
Magdalena Mucowska
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Urban Freight Transport ◽  
And Performance

The growth of e-commerce has increased urban freight transport, bringing negative externalities of emissions, pollution, noise, congestion, and habitat loss. There is a visible effort to make the urban last-mile (LM) deliveries more sustainable, mainly in the environmental aspects; however, the related literature lacks a synthesis of the up-to-date research trends and available solutions. This paper reviews relevant literature following SRL methodology in terms of topics related to green LM deliveries on the e-commerce market in urban areas, and identifies trends and the research gaps in this field. In addition, current research topics and existing solutions within the e-commerce market, which increase its environmental sustainability are presented. The findings provide an accurate and comprehensive synthesis of research in green LM e-commerce deliveries in cities, identify current and emerging interests of researchers worldwide, and discover areas requiring further studies. The topics of ICT and smart solutions, customer behavior, and performance assessment certainly seem to be underestimated in the current research. In practical terms, it is a source of knowledge and guidelines on the current developments regarding the existing solution for the LM e-commerce deliveries in the urban area, which might help local governments, freight operators, and other stakeholders of last-mile logistics to improve their sustainability.

scholarly journals Reusing Newspaper Kiosks for Last-Mile Delivery in Urban Areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9770
Author(s):  
José M. González-Varona ◽  
Félix Villafáñez ◽  
Fernando Acebes ◽  
Alfonso Redondo ◽  
David Poza
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Current Increase ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Last Mile Delivery ◽  
The City

The current increase in e-commerce is generating growing problems in urban areas in terms of both traffic flow (increasing traffic, no parking spaces) and environmental issues (noise, atmospheric pollution, etc.). In parallel, an iconic element of historic districts is disappearing: more and more newspaper kiosks are closing their business as their work dwindles. In this scenario, the objective of this paper is to propose a model for last-mile parcel delivery that exploits the current available newspaper kiosk network by using them as parcel lockers. To demonstrate the benefits of this proposal, we map the kiosk network of the city of Valladolid (Spain), and compare the environmental impact of a traditional (door-to-door) delivery and the proposed model which reuses old kiosks as parcel lockers. The necessary steps to carry out simulations are described in detail so that experiments can be replicated in other cities that face the same issues.

IDENTIFYING THE FACTORS INHIBITING RESEARCH ON URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: REVIEW OF STUDIES IN INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Bhavesh Dhonde ◽  
Chetan Patel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Urban Freight Transport ◽  
The Developed Countries

Most of the cities in developing countries are found to have non-uniform distribution of urban space, complex land use patterns, mixed traffic conditions, extensive use of non-motorized vehicles and lack of traffic discipline. In comparision to the developed countries, it is more complicated to manage urban freight transport in developing countries due to the lack of sufficient infrastructure, wide socio-economic gaps between urban and non-urban areas and haphazard peripheral developments. Therefore the methods and strategies used to manage urban freight transport in developed countries cannot be directly used for cities in developing countries. It is necessary to devise distinctive solutions to improve the efficieny of urban freight transport in these cities, which may otherwise, inhibit the economic growth of these cities as well as hamper the overall momentum of country’s GDP growth gathered over decades. In recent years some studies focussing on urban freight transport are carried out in India, China and Brazil. This paper reviews urban freight studies carried out for Indian cities. India, world’s second most populous country to China, has 39 cities with a million plus population. Most of its cities are facing problems like congestion and air quality degradation due to inefficient freight movement practices. Review of urban freight studies is carried out based on different parameters influencing efficiency of freight movement. Various challenges and limitations faced by the researchers and administrators are discussed. Based on the review results, suggestions and future scope for research in different aspects of urban freight are presented in the paper.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impacts of Crowdshipping Using Public Transport: A Case Study in a Middle-Sized Greek City

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-81
Author(s):  
Ioannis Karakikes ◽  
Eftihia Nathanail
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Urban Freight Transport ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

Crowdsourced deliveries or crowdshipping is identified in recent literature as an emerging urban freight transport solution, aiming at reducing delivery costs, congestion, and environmental impacts. By leveraging the pervasive use of mobile technology, crowdshipping is an emerging solution of the sharing economy in the transport domain, as parcels are delivered by commuters rather than corporations. The objective of this research is to evaluate the impacts of crowdshipping through alternative scenarios that consider various levels of demand and adoption by public transport users who act as crowdshippers, based on a case study example in the city of Volos, Greece. This is achieved through the establishment of a tailored evaluation framework and a city-scale urban freight traffic microsimulation model. Results show that crowdshipping has the potential to mitigate last-mile delivery impacts and effectively contribute to improving the system’s performance.

scholarly journals Lorry Park Selection Criteria and Drivers’ Preferences: A Study from the UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5214
Author(s):  
José Manuel García-Gallego ◽  
Taeun Kang ◽  
Sergio Rubio Lacoba ◽  
Andrea Genovese
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Freight Transport ◽  
The Uk

Increasing urbanization and economic activities has intensified the need for logistical processes in cities. This leads to higher levels of urban freight transport, which is associated with negative social and environmental impacts. Advances in urban logistics can help to alleviate these problems; the recent literature suggests that the creation of appropriate lorry park facilities can represent one of the possible solutions to the social and environmental issues connected to freight transport in urban areas. However, in order to be effective, such facilities need to be properly designed; studies which identify critical success factors for lorry park operations are currently lacking. As such, the purpose of this research is to identify the main criteria which lorry drivers consider when selecting a lorry park facility. In order to achieve these aims, a questionnaire survey was designed; responses from 99 lorry drivers operating in the United Kingdom were collected. Through descriptive statistics, followed by the usage of a conjoint analysis, the main results show that attributes related to food, price, and security are the most important to lorry drivers and are likely to determine the success of such initiatives. These results can provide information to policy and decision-makers related to the design of lorry park facilities in order to achieve the desired results in urban areas.

scholarly journals DIFFERENT URBAN CONSOLIDATION CENTRE SCENARIOS: IMPACT ON EXTERNAL COSTS OF LAST-MILE DELIVERIES

Transport ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 948-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Veličković ◽  
Đurđica Stojanović ◽  
Svetlana Nikoličić ◽  
Marinko Maslarić
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
External Costs ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Freight Consolidation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Urban Consolidation

The identification and mitigation of negative externalities from goods deliveries in urban areas are important aspects of sustainable urban development. Previous studies have shown that urban freight consolidation increases the load factor of Delivery Vehicles (DVs), reducing the vehicle-kilometres driven and thus reducing negative freight transport externalities in urban areas. The objective of this paper is to explore the possible impact of the number of Urban Consolidation Centres (UCCs) on the external costs of last-mile deliveries in freight transport and to determine the possible contribution of such consolidation scenarios to external cost mitigation. Therefore, several consolidation scenarios are considered assuming different numbers of UCCs in operation. A new consolidation scheme is proposed with more than one UCC to serve a given city area. Input data are obtained from a roadside questionnaire survey with a sample of 1617 drivers at 9 access roads to an urban area as part of the NOvi Sad TRAnsport Model (NOSTRAM) study. Externalities are calculated using the IMPACT methodology and discussed for different urban freight consolidation options. The best option is identified, and the results indicate that properly planned, organised and managed urban freight consolidation can significantly reduce transport externalities. The main research results showed that all of the proposed consolidation options increase the total driving distance in an urban area. However, some consolidation options significantly reduce the driving distance of less manageable vehicles in last-mile deliveries (long-haul heavy- and light-duty vehicles). Consequently, the external costs ranged from 2108.3 to 5420.5 EUR for the consolidation option, whereas the current state externalities are 2791.4 EUR. Thus, more small UCCs may provide better results than the central centre even in medium-sized cities.

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