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Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning

Practice and Theory

  • 1st Edition - March 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: José Holguín-Veras, Iván Sánchez-Díaz, Matthew Roorda
  • Language: English

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Description

Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning: Practice and Theory provides the reader with a solid understanding of the role of urban freight activity on metropolitan economies, the externalities produced by freight activity, and effective public sector initiatives to mitigate or eliminate altogether negative externalities. This book addresses key topics related to urban freight and solutions for key challenges from a practitioner perspective.

The authors systematically and pedagogically provide key and easy-to-digest information on a range of topics, including local economies and the role of supply chains and freight activity; technical procedures to estimate freight generation and freight trip generation; technical details about the wide range of initiatives that could address freight issues; and effective urban freight management and planning process (including both transportation and land-use). They also discuss simplified techniques to model and understand freight activity to support decision-making, and they incorporate key elements of sustainability and technology in different sections to provide an up-to-date view on how these relevant topics affect and are affected by urban freight.

This book is a valuable resource for practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students interested in gaining a thorough understanding of the realities of urban freight systems, supply chains, and urban freight management, policy, and planning.

Key features

  • Presents practical solutions and state-of-the-art tools to effectively address the main freight issues of concern
  • Contains an overview of both short- and long-term existing freight initiatives—projects, programs, and policies—that have been solidly characterized in terms of their expected performance
  • Uses a multi-disciplinary orientation based on well-grounded, proven theories and methodologies of transportation and traffic engineering, micro-economics, supply chain management, and urban planning

Readership

Traffic engineers, transportation engineers, and planners in both the public and private sector, students in graduate programs on traffic and transportation planning, urban planning, transportation engineering, supply chain management, and public studies, researchers, both junior and senior, interested in learning about urban freight management and planning

Table of contents

PART A: URBAN ECONOMIES, SUPPLY CHAINS

1. Introduction and Background

2. Urban Economies and the Role of Freight Activity

3. Supply Chains and the physical distribution system

PART B: URBAN FREIGHT MANAGEMENT AND POLICY

4. Freight Activity Data

5. Urban Freight Management, Design and Planning

6. Modelling for Urban Freight Management

7. Regional Freight Demand Modelling for Long-Term Planning and Policy

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the authors

JH

José Holguín-Veras

Jose Holguin-Veras is William H. Hart Professor and Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment at Rensseelaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2013 White House’s Transportation Champion of Change Award, the 1996 Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award, among others. His research interests are in the areas of freight transportation policy, modelling, and economics, and disaster response logistics. His research has led to major changes in transportation policy to improve urban freight systems. He is President of the Pan-American Society of Transportation Research, and Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part A, Transportation Editor of Networks and Spatial Economics, and member of the editorial boards of leading journals. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1996; a M.Sc. from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1984; and a B.Sc. from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in 1982.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Director, The Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.

IS

Iván Sánchez-Díaz

Ivan Sanchez-Diaz is Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, where he is the co-director of the Urban Freight Platform (UFP) funded by VREF. As part of the UFP, Ivan and his research team conduct research on sustainable urban freight and coorganize the VREF Conference on Urban Freight. Ivan is the Committee Research Coordinator of the Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation (AT025) from the US Transportation Research Board and is part of the editorial board of ETRR and WRITR journals. His research has been published in the most prestigious transportation journals, and he has been awarded with the best paper award from AT025. Ivan received his B.S. in Civil Engineering with the highest honors from the Universidad del Norte (Colombia); and received his M.Sc. and PhD in Transportation Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York).
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

MR

Matthew Roorda

Matthew J. Roorda is Professor of Civil & Mineral Engineering and has been faculty at the University of Toronto since 2005. Dr. Roorda was the Founding Chair of the Smart Freight Centre, a five-university research centre focused on freight research and implementation projects across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Dr. Roorda’s research interests include urban freight transportation, freight planning and operations, freight and passenger travel survey methods, city logistics, agent-based simulation, parking and curbside management, emissions analysis, activity-based travel demand modelling, and firm behaviour. Dr. Roorda has extensive experience in the development of new models of urban systems (freight and passenger), the use of those models for forecasting and analysis, and in supporting data collection initiatives. He completed his BEng and Society at McMaster University, and his MASc and PhD degrees at the University of Toronto.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto