The Future of City Logistics – Trends and Developments Leading toward a Smart and Zero‐Emission System

Quak, Hans; Kok, Robert; Boer, E den

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“…Actions taken as part of city logistics are therefore aimed at reducing the negative impact of freight transport and may include, but are not limited to, supply and/or demand management, conscious planning of the city space and infrastructure development, implementation of ICT (information and communication technologies) and ITS (intelligent transport systems) solutions supporting the management of cargo flow in cities, promoting vehicles using alternative power sources (also alternative fuel), and proper management of reverse logistics. According to some researchers, the latest solutions in the field of city logistics will lead to smart and zero emission city systems [16]. To bring real benefits to the city, all decisions taken as part of city logistics management must result from public-private collaboration [17,18].…”

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“…Municipal authorities often focus on implementing solutions that are geared towards urban mobility. However, city logistics also offers several instruments that can help to reduce these problems, e.g., limited access to city zones, time windows for freight deliveries, new technologies (e.g., environmentally friendly vehicles), business models (e.g., based on sharing economy), or Energies 2023, 16, 175 2 of 17 new ways of organising freight transport (e.g., urban transhipment hubs). Properly selected and effectively implemented logistics solutions are the right way to improve the functioning of a city while simultaneously making it a good place for living and an attractive tourist destination.…”

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The Importance of City Logistics for Urban Tourism Development: Searching for a New Research Field

2022

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This paper presents the results of a study on city logistics in the urban tourist area as a research field. Both disciplines are developing intensively, and the research results have many implications for business practices, in particular for alternative fuel for transport, energy savings, waste management, and creating new business models that meet the challenges of modern society. In the era of decarbonisation, city logistics and tourism must define new rules for coexistence. The identified dominant subfields (tourism, logistics, urban transport, urban development and planning, new technologies, and sustainable development) and the links between them have pointed to some research gaps and suggested a direction for further research. The research procedure applied, adapted to the overall goal of the study, consists of an analysis of publications in the Scopus database (February 2022). A keyword co-occurrence network for the research field of city logistics in the urban tourist area is constructed with the use of the VOSviewer software. It follows from the analysis that the research area combining city logistics and city tourism remains relatively unexplored. Forming only a small part of research into city logistics, it has unexplored research potential. The research area under analysis is interdisciplinary in nature.

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The Importance of City Logistics for Urban Tourism Development: Searching for a New Research Field

2022

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“…Numerous flows of goods from and within the city center increase the level of congestion in city centers, which are already congested by public transport and cars. High emissions of harmful gases occur due to the rising turnover of goods and due to the fact that conventional trucks equipped with outdated technology are used for transport [3].…”

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Defining and Measuring the Relevance of Criteria for the Evaluation of the Inflow of Goods in City Centers

2021

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The aim of this paper is to define and measure the relevance of the criteria for the evaluation of the inflow of goods in city centers, in order to improve delivery activities within city centers. The development of the city center leads to the grouping of numerous business operators, which results in the increase of the quantity of goods entering the city center, causing additional traffic congestion, higher levels of noise and emissions of harmful gases. In the long term, this leads to major dissatisfaction with the quality of life among city residents. Therefore, the planning of goods delivery must be in line with the sustainable development of city logistics, while at the same time considering the interests of relevant stakeholders. However, in the existing literature the criteria for evaluating delivery flows have not been comprehensively identified or evaluated by the stakeholders of city centers. In order to fill the research gap, the authors have defined four groups of criteria: technical-technological, economic-financial, organizational and social criteria. To determine the relevance of these criteria, it was necessary to use the questionnaire method to collect data from the stakeholder groups defined by the literature review. Regarding the relevant stakeholders (carriers, delivery recipients, residents and urban policy makers), the results have pointed out that the technical-technological and organizational criteria groups are considered the most relevant by the stakeholders regarding the inflow of goods in city centers.

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“…There is a need for innovative types of deliveries in inner cities, reducing the negative ecological and social impact of transport. A lot of attention has been also given to the use of alternative fuel vehicles in urban logistics, in particular, the usability of electric freight vehicles (EFVs) [8] and zero-emissions solutions [10,11]. To address these issues, several innovative solutions have been proposed such as [12]: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and deliveries with robots (e.g., UAVs).…”

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Reactive UAV Fleet’s Mission Planning in Highly Dynamic and Unpredictable Environments

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) create an interesting alternative for establishing more sustainable urban freight deliveries. The substitution of traditional trucks in the last-mile distribution by a UAV fleet can contribute to urban sustainability by reducing air pollution and increasing urban freight efficiency. This paper presents a novel approach to the joint proactive and reactive planning of deliveries by a UAV fleet. We develop a receding horizon-based approach to reactive, online planning for the UAV fleet’s mission. We considered the delivery of goods to spatially dispersed customers over an assumed time horizon. Forecasted weather changes affect the energy consumption of UAVs and limit their range. Therefore, consideration should be given to plans for follow-up tasks, previously unmet needs, and predictions of disturbances over a moving time horizon. We propose a set of reaction rules that can be encountered during delivery in a highly dynamic and unpredictable environment. We implement a constraint programming paradigm, which is well suited to cope with the nonlinearity of the system’s characteristics. The proposed approach to online reactive UAV routing is evaluated in several instances. The computational experiments have shown that the developed model is capable of providing feasible plans for a UAV fleet’s mission that are robust to changes in weather and customer’s orders.

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The Future of City Logistics – Trends and Developments Leading toward a Smart and Zero‐Emission System

Cited by 5 publications

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The Importance of City Logistics for Urban Tourism Development: Searching for a New Research Field

The Importance of City Logistics for Urban Tourism Development: Searching for a New Research Field

Defining and Measuring the Relevance of Criteria for the Evaluation of the Inflow of Goods in City Centers

Reactive UAV Fleet’s Mission Planning in Highly Dynamic and Unpredictable Environments

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