A City Logistics Living Lab: A Methodological Approach

Nesterova, Nina; Quak, Hans

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2016.11.038

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“…This remark is fundamental and suggests/clarifies how a Living Lab approach can integrate with a cutting-edge method such as DT when planning for urban freight transport. A Living Lab approach to urban freight (please see CITYLAB-City Logistics in Living Laboratories project, http://www.citylab-project.eu/) is the most up-to-date planning strategy inherently relying on data-driven models [7]. A reliable model for planning should not only be capable of mimicking real-life experiments, so to reproduce past events, but also be able to predict the future, assuming different scenarios have different probabilities of actually materialising.…”

Section: How Can Planners and Policy-makers Cope With Changes?mentioning

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Digital Twins: A Critical Discussion on Their Potential for Supporting Policy-Making and Planning in Urban Logistics

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Poor logistics efficiency, due to low load factors caused by high demand fragmentation, will have relevant negative consequences for cities in terms of pollution, congestion and overall city liveability. Policy-makers should equip themselves with appropriate tools to perform reliable, comprehensive and timely analyses of urban logistics scenarios, also considering upcoming (i) technological changes, (ii) business model evolutions and (iii) spatial-temporal changes these innovations will produce. This paper discusses the Digital Twin (DT) concept, illustrating the role it might play and clarifying how to properly conceive it with respect to urban freight transport policy-making and planning. The main message is that without a sound theory and knowledge with respect to the relationships linking contextual reality and choice/behaviour, it is not possible to make sense of what happens in the real world. Therefore, the joint use of behavioural and simulation models should characterise a DT within a Living Lab approach so to stimulate effective, well-informed and participated planning processes, but also to forecast both behaviour and reactions to structural changes and policy measures implementations.

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Section: How Can Planners and Policy-makers Cope With Changes?mentioning

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Digital Twins: A Critical Discussion on Their Potential for Supporting Policy-Making and Planning in Urban Logistics

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“…Both are directly connected but their major aims and point of views are different. In this context, as proposed in [3], it is necessary to emphasise three points of reference: private interest, public interest, and inhabitants' expectations. Accordingly, in view of the proposed methodology, it is reasonable to break down the stakeholders into groups that represents the three points of reference: "Inhabitants and Community Councils" to represent the residents' interests, "Business" to represent the private interest, and "City Authorities" to represent the public interest.…”

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“…An Urban Freight Transport (UFT) system may be characterised as a sociotechnical system consisting of a compilation of infrastructural (technical, social) systems and interdependence networks of stakeholders. It includes elements such as e.g., technologies-vehicles, ICT solutions, logistics infrastructure, legal regulations or market factors-supply and demand for the distributed goods [1][2][3][4][5]. In a holistic perspective, in accordance with the idea of sustainable development, it should also account for social and environmental aspects recommended by the European Commission (the concept of zero-emission urban logistics by 2030).…”

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The Concept of Urban Freight Transport Projects Durability and Its Assessment within the Framework of a Freight Quality Partnership

Kijewska¹,

Jedliński²

2018

Sustainability

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This article focuses on the role of Urban Freight Transport (UFT) projects in improving the life quality of city inhabitants. The main focus of the deliberations is the aspect of UFT projects' durability. The authors take an original approach to the definition of UFT project durability and also provide the results of a research study carried out in 2018. This made it possible to furnish an answer to the research questions that boiled down to the analysis of the current status of the relevant academic literature, to attempt to define the total durability of a UFT project, and to indicate the critical gaps in perception among the key stakeholders of the projects. In this study, particular attention is paid to the terminological synthesis and the conclusion resulting from adopting induction and deduction as the methods of solving research study problems. A novelty is the approach adopted in the project evaluation emphasising the mentioned durability aspect as one of the major success factors. This is particularly important for implementation of a Freight Quality Partnership as a solution enabling development of sustainable systems of urban logistics. The solution was treated as a specific implementation project for which the issue of key importance is the identification of success factors in the context of satisfying the needs of diverse groups of UFT stakeholders. It should be stressed that durability of projects in the area of UFT is critically important, even though there is a significant conceptual gap in that regard. The research study involved the originally developed concept of the Pyramid of Stakeholders Survey. By means of this concept, FQP durability was analysed on the example of the experience gained in the course of the solution functioning in Szczecin.

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“…By definition, a living lab promotes a user-centered, open-innovation ecosystem, integrating transdisciplinary research within a public-private-people partnership (4Ps) [17]. The concept of living labs has been applied in city logistics as a method for action-driven partnerships that follows a solution-driven approach [18,19] and as an approach to foster stakeholders' engagement in co-creating policies [20]. This is translating to the Heijendaal living lab through its setup, which looks at a new way of working through the collaboration of supply chain actors, academia, and governments, and finding an optimal solution for cost-efficient, consolidated and emission-free "last mile" logistics of goods in the Heijendaal campus through learning-by-doing.…”

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A Managerial and Behavioral Approach in Aligning Stakeholder Goals in Sustainable Last Mile Logistics: A Case Study in the Netherlands

2021

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Stakeholders play vital roles in the implementation of sustainable last mile logistics solutions. Therefore, the first step in setting up successful sustainable last mile logistics is to conduct stakeholder analysis. This paper analyzes the goals of the stakeholders in the Heijendaal living lab, a city logistics project that uses two hubs for bundling goods to be delivered to the Heijendaal campus in The Netherlands. We use the Theory of Planned Behavior and Policy Deployment to present a qualitative case study, which examines the goals of stakeholders in relation to their roles in the supply chain and in the organization, and if these goals lead to their expected participation behavior. Results show that stakeholders have economic, social, and environmental goals and that some of these goals are prominent within certain groups of stakeholders along the supply chain and within the organization. In addition, the set goals do not always lead to participation behavior of stakeholders due to identified disruptions and habits. This study identifies the importance of information sharing and collaboration within the supply chain, the leading role of middle-level managers in translating strategic to operational goals, and the stimulation of behavioral factors to increase participation of stakeholders in the living lab.

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A City Logistics Living Lab: A Methodological Approach

Cited by 20 publications

References 3 publications

Digital Twins: A Critical Discussion on Their Potential for Supporting Policy-Making and Planning in Urban Logistics

Digital Twins: A Critical Discussion on Their Potential for Supporting Policy-Making and Planning in Urban Logistics

The Concept of Urban Freight Transport Projects Durability and Its Assessment within the Framework of a Freight Quality Partnership

A Managerial and Behavioral Approach in Aligning Stakeholder Goals in Sustainable Last Mile Logistics: A Case Study in the Netherlands

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