Managing Urban Logistics
- 1st Edition - March 21, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Rosario Macario, Vasco Reis
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 4 6 2 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 4 6 3 - 3
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Request a sales quoteManaging Urban Logistics provides new insights based on the most recent research, theories, and developments in technological and ICT solutions, contemporary corporate trends, the re-evaluation of the role of authorities, and much more. The book shows how to manage these complex urban logistics issues using a long term, systemic perspective where urban freight distribution is an integral part of the entire urban mobility system. It examines the convergence points between mass and customized deliveries, thus modeling the decision processes, trade-offs and tolerances behind these processes to enable a more fluid sharing of urban space.Users will find an approach that tackles these issues from an empirical viewpoint that is based on analysis from a wide set of cases in urban environments around the world. A fresh and unique multidisciplinary approach that is based on solid theoretical background and a pragmatic management standpoint makes this book a must have for those involved in urban logistics.
- Blends theory with real-world cases to create viable solutions
- Uses an interdisciplinary approach to city logistics in a structured and organized way that is useful for all stakeholders
- Shows how to identify logistics profiles and build a logistical map of the city
- Examines the technological solutions that can be used to support different business models, adopting a rational, innovative, problem-solving approach to the movement of urban goods
Researchers in Transportation Planning and Logistics, Logistics and Freight Transportation practitioners and consultants, and City officials
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- About WCTRS
- Copyright
- Biography
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Contextualization and scope
- 1.2. Mega-drivers impacting urban logistics
- 1.3. Key trends shaping urban logistics
- 1.4. About this book
- 2. Concept of logistics profile and synergies with business models
- 2.1. Logistics profile
- 2.2. Business models
- 3. Logistics as a service: enhancing urban logistics efficiency
- 3.1. Contextualization
- 3.2. LaaS and mobility as a service: two sides of the same coin
- 3.3. Key components of logistics as a service
- 3.4. Advantages and impacts of logistics as a service in urban logistics
- 3.5. Future options and opportunities for LaaS in urban logistics
- 3.6. Conclusions
- 4. Modeling urban logistics
- 4.1. Context
- 4.2. Modeling and simulation concepts
- 4.3. Freight modeling paradigms
- 4.4. Review of urban freight transport models
- 4.5. Conclusions
- 5. Environmentally friendly vehicles for sustainable logistics
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Road vehicles
- 5.3. Rail transport
- 5.4. Inland waterway transport
- 5.5. Conclusions
- 6. Reverse urban logistics
- 6.1. Contextualization
- 6.2. Literature review
- 6.3. Key trends in reverse urban logistics
- 6.4. Types of reverse logistics flows in the urban context
- 6.5. Key challenges and barriers
- 6.6. Best practices and international experience
- 6.7. Impacts on the environment
- 6.8. Conclusions and future prospects
- 7. Corporative trends in the urban logistics
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Corporate trends in urban distribution of goods
- 7.3. Conclusions
- 8. Engaging stakeholders to enhance urban logistics systems
- 8.1. Key stakeholders
- 8.2. Engaging stakeholders in urban logistics
- 8.3. Conclusions
- 9. Light touch regulation
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Quality regulation
- 9.3. The ecosystem
- 9.4. Inductive regulation
- 9.5. Regulatory framework for market assessment
- 9.6. SULP
- 10. Assessment at different stages of implementation
- 10.1. Need for continuous monitoring
- 10.2. The quality process
- 10.3. Creating value
- 10.4. The assessment model
- 10.5. The indicators
- 11. Need for innovation in urban logistics
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. The character of innovation: Sources, types, and patterns
- 11.3. Defining the strategy to implement innovation
- 11.4. Monitoring and fostering innovation
- 11.5. Marketing as an instrument for modeling perceptions and expectations
- 11.6. Setting up an innovation system
- 12. The way forward
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 21, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 286
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128144626
- eBook ISBN: 9780128144633
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Rosario Macario
Rosário Macário is Professor and Researcher of Transportation at the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georresources at Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade de Lisboa, and Professor of Transport and Regional Economics at University of Antwerp. Her transport research covers all transport modes and focuses on business and systems development, mobility planning and management, regulation, policy development, and financing. She is the author and editor of several books and Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s journal “Case studies for Transport Policy.”
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Transportation, Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, Instituto Superior Tecnico Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; Professor of Transport and Regional Economics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, BelgiumVR
Vasco Reis
Vasco Reis is Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon. He teaches Freight Transport and Logistics as well as Transport Planning and Operations. He is member of the Freight and Logistics Committee of the European Transport Conference, as well as member of Transport Research Board’s Intermodal Transfer Facilities Committee and Intermodal Freight Transport Committee. He is an Editorial Board Member of Elsevier’s Case Studies on Transport Policy and a reviewer for several Elsevier journals, including Transportation Research: Part A and Transportation Research: Part E.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Fellow and Lecturer, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, PortugalRead Managing Urban Logistics on ScienceDirect