by Walther Ploos van Amstel
The Guardian reports about the underwater bike garage that should solve Amsterdam Central Station’s bike parking headache by offering space for 7.000 bicycles. The city of Amsterdam facilitates underwater bike parking to return the public space to pedestrians (residents, visitors, commuters). According to the Guardian, the garage results from a 4-year and €60 million project to clear …
Mobilise developed a methodological approach to derive construction-related truck kilometers on city level based on algorithmic and geospatial analyses of GPS data. Results show that large urban construction sites account for 26.4% of total HGV traffic in Brussels. Methodologies used so far make abstraction of traveled vehicle-kilometers (vkm), hence inadequately determining the true environmental impact …
Over the past decade, the share of e-commerce has risen. It is expected that this trend will continue. Bricks and mortar (B&M) retailers have reacted to the increasing share of e-commerce retail leading to an increasing merger of both retail modes into omnichannel retail. Changes in the transport system inevitably accompany these shifts in retail …
Stimulated by the growing demand for logistics services and the advances in information technologies, research interest in the dynamic vehicle routing problem with random requests (DVRPRR) increased over recent decades. The DVRPRR differs from classical vehicle routing in that the customer requests are not fully known in advance but arrive dynamically during the execution of …
Dutch NWO has selected eight projects for funding within the joint JPI Urban Europe and NSFC call (ENUAC). Dutch research teams are involved in four of the projects. Researchers will work on sustainable urban logistics with public and private partners. The projects aim to contribute to achieving accessible, climate-neutral, and sustainable cities in China and …