In a world where urbanization is becoming more and more widespread, big figures can be seen around internal urban migration further aggravating the environmental urban situation, which results from several previous factors. This is the case with globalization, online shopping, or polluting industrial and human sources. The major solutions are centered primarily on the concern for urban mobility, the involvement of the stakeholders concerned, the optimization of journeys, the use of lanes and roads, the choice of vehicles as well as the zoning or choice of logistics locations. Sustainability is one of the primary elements of flow management; it is one of the most important pillars of the concept of "urban logistics". Indeed, the final goal goes beyond the delivery of goods, going so far as to place the environment as an essential support for urban logistics. In this paper we present a literature review on sustainable logistics, we will try to answer the following problem: Urban logistics: Where are we? To respond to this problem, we are taking the following approach: Presentation of the basic concepts, choice of articles to be used for the study which will induce us to determine the axes and the main actors, with the aim of specifying the most predominant aspects which must be treated and prioritized in order to make urban logistics more optimal.

Current development trends are driving ubiquitous sustainability requirements, pushing organizations to achieve new sustainability goals and targets. To this effect, continuous and continual performance measurements are the key to any business-related success. Therefore, the sustainable performance of an organization can be defined as the performance that takes a long time to achieve its goals. The outcome is a well-balanced balance of context, strategy, management processes, resources, and intangibles especially since it is closely related to the notion of sustainable development (TBL). The goal of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, a systematic literature review is conducted to highlight the importance and the need to assess the three pillars of sustainability and, finally, to encircle the sustainability concept by identifying the most used techniques and approaches in its evaluation. This paper can be considered as basic support for future studies in the application of sustainable performance measurement/assessment systems.

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The objective of this paper is to present a new multidimensional performance measurement model calculating the overall sustainable performance value applied to the road freight transport sector. The measurement system presented considers five main dimensions including economic, social, environmental, operational and stakeholder. This paper justifies the choice of these dimensions and details the calculation approach through the presentation of the different minimum conditions algorithms leading to the final global performance value. The model is then generalized here by means of the artificial neural network (ANN) which is found to be the most relevant modeling technique used in a variety of scientific domains. In this study, ANN is used to predict the value of the global multidimensional performance in road freight transport estimated following the machine learning of the program on a labeled database. The data on which the program trained emerged from our multidimensional performance measurement model. A model mainly designed for the sole purpose of quantifying the sustainable performance of a supply chain. To this end, we have identified five main dimensions recurrently cited in the literature, namely: economic, environmental, social, operational, and stakeholders. The dimensions' respective performances are obtained by employing a minimum condition algorithm, which returns the global multidimensional performance. The suggested model is general and may be applied to different disciplines.