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Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning
Practice and Theory
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2025
- Authors: Jose Holguin-Veras, Ivan Sanchez-Diaz, Matthew Roorda
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 1 2 8 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 8 7 1 - 4
Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning: Practice and Theory provides the reader with a solid understanding of the role of urban freight activity on metropoli… Read more
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Request a sales quoteUrban 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.
- Presents practical solutions and state-of-the-art tools so 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 on proven theories and methodologies of transportation and traffic engineering, micro-economics, supply chain management, and urban planning
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
PART A: URBAN ECONOMIES, SUPPLY CHAINS
1. Basic micro-economic principles
2. Urban Economies and the Role of Freight Activity and Supply Chains
3. The Physical Production and Distribution System
PART B: URBAN FREIGHT MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
4. Urban Freight Management and Policy
5. Freight Demand Modelling for Short-Term Urban Freight Management
6. Selection of Initiatives for Short-Term Urban Freight Management
7. Evaluation and Follow-Up
PART C: URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
8. Strategic Freight Demand Modeling for Long-Term Planning and Policy
9. Policy and Planning for Long-Term Freight Efficient Land Uses
10. Evaluation and Follow-Up
- No. of pages: 325
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323951289
- eBook ISBN: 9780323958714
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Jose Holguin-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
Ivan Sanchez-Diaz
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