This communication presents four contrasted and near-caricatured scenarios of retail location and distribution, and compares them on the bases of both road occupancy rates and greenhouse gas emissions. Two main families of scenarios are defined: retailing land-use scenarios, based on the...

Freight transport constitutes one of the main activities that influences economy and society, as it assures a vital link between suppliers and customers and it represents a major source of employment. Multi-echelon distribution is one of the most common strategies adopted by the transport...

This paper presents a modelling approach to characterise private car shopping trips in a city logistics point of view, in order to connect these movements with those belonging to urban freight distribution in the supply chain. The proposed modelling framework is a two-step procedure articulated...

This paper presents the main issues related to the financing of urban logistics solutions, more precisely to the contribution of economic analysis on strategic decision support related for urban logistics financing, focusing on cost benefit analysis. First we present the main funding strategies...

The deployment of urban logistics solutions is one of the main pending questions in the field of urban goods transport research and practice. Indeed, although several solutions and projects have been tested in the last years, only few of them reach an operational phase and remain viable in time....

La mutualisation des flux de transport est un sujet très populaire mais encore peu exploré. En milieu urbain, une mutualisation des flux de transport permet une meilleure rationalisation des moyens mis en place se traduisant à la fois par une réduction de coût et un impact environnemental...

Cette communication a pour objet de proposer les résultats d'une simulation de l'application de différents scénarios d'évolution de la ville, visant à réduire des trois quarts l'impact des échanges de biens dans la ville sur la production de gaz à effet de serre. Les scénarios proposés...

This chapter introduces the book of homonymous title. It motivaites the development of the book and present the different visions of city/urban logistics. Moreover, all chapters are introduced and commented.

Ce chapitre présente les principaux indicateurs de performance dans les organisations qui pourraient intéresser la mutualisation logistique urbaine. Trois grands volets sont abordés: la performance en gestion, la performance en supply chain management et la performance durable de la...

This chapter aims to investigate the contribution of GPS survey techniques for urban goods movement characterization, and to diagnosis the implementation and application issues related to the introduction of real-time data transmission procedures and phone tools with integrated GPS devices. We...