Sustainable Urban Freight Transport
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 3172
Special Issue Editors
Interests: city logistics; urban freight transport; ITS
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Interests: physical internet; urban freight; intelligent transport systems; freight modelling; distribution network; city logistics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue titled “Sustainable Urban Freight Transport” aims to provide recent advances in the modelling, planning and evaluation of urban freight transport for sustainable and liveable cities. To achive sustainable urban freight transport, the application of emerging technologies is essential, including IoT (Internet of Things), ICT (information and communication technologies), ITS (intelligent transport systems), AI (artificial intelligence), big data, AV (autonomous vehicles) and robots. Data collection and analyses using these innovative technologies are important for modelling urban freight transport.
Collaboration among stakeholders is also critical for successful implementation of policy measures of city logistics. Data sharing between the public authorities and private companies is required to plan and evaluate effective policy measures before implementing them. Evaluation of policy measures in considering social, economic and environmental issues is needed.
We welcome papers on the following topics for this Special Issue:
(1) Modelling city logistics using vehicle routing and scheduling, location routing, multi-agent simulation and network flow models;
(2) Planning and management of city logistics schemes, including joint delivery, off-hour delivery, access control, urban consolidation centres and parcel rockers;
(3) Application of innovative technologies including ICT, ITS, IoT, big data, AI, AV and robots in city logistics;
(4) Hyperconnected city logistics based on the Physical Internet;
(5) Collaboration and coordination among stakeholders;
(6) Evaluation of city logistics measures in case studies in terms of costs, environment, safety and energy consumption;
(7) The use of electric vehicles, cargo bikes, burges and trams for urban freight transport;
(8) Impacts of land use on urban freight transport;
(9) The integration of urban freight transport and passenger traffic;
(10) Case studies on sustainable urban freight transport in real cities.
Prof. Eiichi Taniguchi
Prof. Dr. Russell Thompson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban freight transport
- sustainability
- emerging technologies
- modelling
- stakeholders’ collaboration
- Physical Internet
- urban planning
- electric vehicles
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