Agent interactions and the response of supply chains to pricing and incentives

Importance of the Stakeholders’ Interaction: Comparative, Longitudinal Study of Two City Logistics Initiatives

“…To understand the issues and needs of multi-stakeholder collaboration and interaction in city logistics, several researchers try to address the complexity of the relations among the stakeholders involved in the field [9]. The majority of researchers consider four to five stakeholders' groups in city logistics.…”

“…However, all these stakeholders do not hold the same points of view to improve the whole system, and conflicts of interest arise [1]. Due to the scarcity of space, the density, the challenges, and the complexity of the city logistics initiatives, conflicts between stakeholders are common [9]. Most of the conflicts arise due to their diversity and heterogenic needs, which are great challenges in city logistics [15][16][17][18] and contribute to barriers for communication between the private and public sectors [2].…”

Smart urban freight planning process: integrating desk, living lab and modelling approaches in decision-making

“…This has a greater potential for improving the economic, social, and environmental performance of urban freight systems [8]. 4 While incentives are useful to foster UFT behaviour change, a recent trend aims at engaging and promoting sustainable behaviours using Bgamification^techniques, i.e. the use of game design elements in nongame contexts [28].…”

“…), as well as in national and regional ones, and drawing on the urban freight best practices previously acquired; b) developing a matching algorithm/software to determine the best possible 3 Holguín-Veras and Sánchez-Díaz [8] define freight demand strategies as Bthe area of transportation policy that seeks to induce the demand generator to enact changes in demand patterns to increase economic productivity and/or efficiency; and/or enhance sustainability, quality of life, and/or environmental justice. 4 BExamples include: off-hour delivery programs that incentivize receivers to accept deliveries in the off-hours; staggered pick-up/delivery programs that induce receivers to spread their deliveries throughout the day; and ReceiverLed Consolidation programs that encourage receivers to reduce their Freight Trip Generation^ [8]. 5 e.g.…”

“…This article is part of Topical Collection on The role of planning towards sustainable urban mobility [3,4]. Shippers generate freight demand, freight carriers organise freight transport from shippers to receivers and they are all driven by private interests.…”