Although urban freight transportation is crucial to address societal demands, it also has a major negative impact on the environment, the economy, and society. Then, the growing interest in promoting more sustainable and liveable cities is pushing to point out more in depth the role of urban goods movements within the planning process, as well as city administrators to implement new sustainable city logistics actions/policies/measures. Therefore, after a brief overview, the study presents more advanced techniques (models and methodologies) to help in the assessment of planning scenario. This paper concentrates on the importance of urban freight transport and logistics. Then, technical and logistics actions are outlined, and future last-mile delivery challenges are discussed. The main objective is to support urban planners, on a strategic and tactical scale, in obtaining an overview of urban freight transport systems that point out the challenges for implementing sustainable city logistics scenarios. It is also of interest to technicians because they can identify the most suitable methodologies, as well as the features that they need for selecting and assessing ex ante the effects of city logistics measures. This work is useful for researchers in various sectors because it allows them to formalise and then to solve the problems for simulating the complex system of urban goods movements where there are different actors with own interests that are conflicting.

Comi, A., Fancello, G., Piras, F., Serra, P. (2024). Towards more sustainable cities: tools and policies for urban goods movements. JOURNAL OF ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION, 2024(1) [10.1155/2024/1952969].

Towards more sustainable cities: tools and policies for urban goods movements

Antonio Comi
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2024-01-01

Abstract

Although urban freight transportation is crucial to address societal demands, it also has a major negative impact on the environment, the economy, and society. Then, the growing interest in promoting more sustainable and liveable cities is pushing to point out more in depth the role of urban goods movements within the planning process, as well as city administrators to implement new sustainable city logistics actions/policies/measures. Therefore, after a brief overview, the study presents more advanced techniques (models and methodologies) to help in the assessment of planning scenario. This paper concentrates on the importance of urban freight transport and logistics. Then, technical and logistics actions are outlined, and future last-mile delivery challenges are discussed. The main objective is to support urban planners, on a strategic and tactical scale, in obtaining an overview of urban freight transport systems that point out the challenges for implementing sustainable city logistics scenarios. It is also of interest to technicians because they can identify the most suitable methodologies, as well as the features that they need for selecting and assessing ex ante the effects of city logistics measures. This work is useful for researchers in various sectors because it allows them to formalise and then to solve the problems for simulating the complex system of urban goods movements where there are different actors with own interests that are conflicting.
2024
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Rilevanza internazionale
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Esperti anonimi
Settore ICAR/05
English
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City logistics; Urban transport; Sustainable urban plan; Goods demand forecast; Sustainable urban logistics plan; Uncertainty of the scenario; Liveable city; Sustainable city; Triple access planning; Triple access systems
This research was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement no. 875022 and as part of JPI Urban Europe’s ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) initiative.
Comi, A., Fancello, G., Piras, F., Serra, P. (2024). Towards more sustainable cities: tools and policies for urban goods movements. JOURNAL OF ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION, 2024(1) [10.1155/2024/1952969].
Comi, A; Fancello, G; Piras, F; Serra, P
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