Search Results - subject:"Freight Distribution"

A state-of-practice review of urban consolidation centres : practical insights and future challenges

Giampoldaki, Eleni; Madas, Michael; Zeimpekis, Vasileios; … - In: International journal of logistics : research and … 26 (2023) 6, pp. 732-763

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How to make urban freight transport by tram successful?

De Langhe, Katrien; Meersman, Hilde; Sys, Christa; Van … - In: Journal of Shipping and Trade (JST) 4 (2019) 13, pp. 1-23

Many 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...

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How to make urban freight transport by tram successful?

De Langhe, Katrien; Meersman, Hilde; Sys, Christa; Van … - In: Journal of shipping and trade 4 (2019) 13, pp. 1-23

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Analysing the Role of Rail in Urban Freight Distribution

De Langhe, Katrien - 2014

potential role of rail in urban freight distribution, which was once important. Firstly, several existing cases of urban freight … appropriate methodology for assessing the potential of rail for urban freight distribution is a combination of stated and revealed … cities and freight is set up. Thirdly, a conceptual cost model to estimate the potential of rail transport in urban freight …

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INTR-AGENT HETEROGENEITY IN URBAN FREIGHT DISTRIBUTION: THE CASE OF OWN ACCOUNT OPERATORS

Marcucci, Edoardo; Gatta, Valerio - Centro di Ricerca sull'Economia delle Istituzioni … - 2013

Urban freight distribution policies aim to improve the efficiency of deliveries of goods in cities. Local policy makers … in providing and buying freight distribution services. Retailers, transport providers and own-account agents are among … bridge it, that call for a thorough agent-specific analysis. This paper focuses on urban freight distribution with specific …

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A review of the success and failure of tram systems to carry urban freight: the implications for a low emission intermodal solution using electric vehicles on trams

Arvidsson, Niklas; Browne, Michael - In: European Transport \ Trasporti Europei (2013) 54

intermodal urban freight distribution. D istribution activities are vital for society but are also the cause of environmental and … transform the current freight distribution system within cities, for example by favouring the enhancement of intermodal …

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Multi-echelon distribution systems in city logistics

Mancini, Simona - In: European Transport \ Trasporti Europei (2013) 54

In the last decades , the increasing quality of services requested by the cust omer, yields to the necessity of optimizing the whole distribution process. This goal may be achieved through a smart exploitation of existing resources other than a clever planning of the whole distribution process....

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The Influence of Time Windows on the Costs of Urban Freight Distribution Services in City Logistics Applications

Deflorio, Francesco P.; Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus; Perboli, … - HAL - 2012

In freight distribution services a required quality level may have a relevant effect on transportation costs. For this … study concerning a freight distribution service, which operates on a wide road network having a city centre, a peripheral …

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Using rail to make urban freight distribution more sustainable

Alessandrini, Adriano; Delle Site, Paolo; Filippi, Francesco - In: European Transport \ Trasporti Europei (2012) 50, pp. 5-5

Rail is today a minimally used modality in urban freight distribution. To reap the benefits of this more sustainable … transport mode a few experiences in Europe have attempted to introduce innovative freight distribution schemes where rail is …

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Reassessing the wholesaler role in urban freight distribution

Sirjean, Stéphane; Boudouin, Daniel; Morel, Christian; … - In: European review of service economics and management (2017) 1/3, pp. 163-175

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