Urban Freight Transportation Systems

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Authors' Biographies -- Emerging issues in urban freight transportation systems-introduction and overview of the book -- Part A. Land-use and urban production -- Chapter 1. Logistics locations patterns-distance-based methods for relative industrial concentration measurement applied to the region of Berlin-Brandenburg -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scope of the study -- 3. Method -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- Chapter 2. Developing a pricing model for promoting coordinated resource demand in cooperative warehouses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Pricing model -- 4. Simulation model -- 5. Simulation study -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Urban factories-interdisciplinary perspectives on resource efficiency -- 1. Introduction and background -- 2. Interfaces of urban factories -- 3. Planning activities for urban factories -- 4. Toward an interdisciplinary design approach of urban factories -- 5. Common control system of urban factories -- Part B. Logistics concepts and urban freight transportation -- Chapter 4. Improving cost efficiency and environmental impact through the integration of light freight and passenger railway transport and last-mile distribution analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Proposed railroad-based distribution model -- 4. Model analysis: comparison between pure road distribution and mixed railroad distribution -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Chapter 5. Commercial traffic 2.0-analysis and recommendations of delivery strategies for the package delivery industry in urban areas -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research interests -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results and recommendations -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 6. The impact of data accuracy for efficient and feasible routing plans -- 1. Introduction.