by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Urban freight is causing problems in urban areas. Cities need solutions to reduce externalities costs such as congestion, pollution and others. A new paper presents a review of the recent scientific literature contributions on innovative strategies for last mile logistics, focusing on externalities cost reduction.
The SUCCESS project targeted the construction industry as a sector with a major impact on city logistics which has an un-exploited potential of improvement as regards the efficiency of trips associated with the delivery of goods, waste and service in EU cities. The SUCCESS project goal is to provide tools and answers to the challenges …
Interested in an intensive immersion into the world of urban logistics? Interested to follow an introductory module covering all aspects of urban logistics (August 20-24, 2018) and an optional assignment elaboration week (August 27-31)? Interested to focus on innovation and sustainability in urban logistics in all its facets?
The Urbelog project investigated the needs of stakeholders in city logistics; retailers and HoReCa, transport operators and local authorities. The project was aimed at designing a dynamic and participatory platform of services and applications for the optimisation of the last mile city logistics.
A new research paper from the UK present a vision of how ICT can be leveraged to help combat the impact on pollution, congestion and carbon emissions contributed by the parcel delivery sector. This is necessary given the growth in parcel deliveries, especially same-day deliveries, and light commercial vehicles and the need to inform initiatives for cleaner city …
Recently the Mayor of London presented his Transport Strategy. The strategy takes on integrated approach to urban freight as well. Making streets work for people will provide huge economic benefits not only through revitalising town centres and attracting business to London, but also by freeing up space for the essential freight and commercial journeys that …
A mathematical model is developed by researchers from Vrije Universiteit Brussels and TU Eindhoven to calculate the costs of alternative distribution set-ups for last mile transportation in a FMCG supply chain with small and fragmented volumes. The model is based on input from logistics cost models for urban areas combined with cost variables related to …
Nowadays, more and more residents live in cities. These cities are most of the time created in the time of the Industrial Revolution. You can imagine the structure of a city with industrial and economic -shopping and leisure – and living areas, all interconnected by an infrastructure for public an private transport of persons and …
The International Cargo Bike Festival (ICBF) takes place Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 April 2018 at the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin. The International Cargo Bike Festival 2018 will be hosted by VELOBerlin. It will take place at the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin on 14 and 15 April 2018.
April 16 is the inspirational Conference on the occasion Of The 10th Anniversary Of Binnenstadservice in Nijmegen. The conference gives the floor to important stakeholders in city logistics to exchange operational experience, knowledge and innovations on European Urban Freight consolidation.