An urban consolidation center in the city of Copenhagen: A simulation study

Heeswijk, Wouter van; Larsen, R. M.; Larsen, Allan

doi:10.1080/15568318.2018.1503380

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“…Primarily however, city logistics promotes consolidation schemes such as urban consolidation centres (UCC's) (Strale, 2019, van Heeswijk et al, 2019. The goal of consolidation is according to Allen et al (2014) to achieve higher vehicle fill rates to reduce traffic volumes while maintaining the same goods volumes.…”

Section: City Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Construction Logistics in a City Development Setting

Janné

2020

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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With the current urbanization trend, there is an increased need for city development, i.e. to build apartment buildings, hospitals, schools and infrastructure in cities and urban areas to meet the rising demands. At the same time, land is increasingly seen as a finite resource. This has led to the regeneration of decommissioned industrial-use land for development purposes. This means that multiple individual construction projects are being built in the same or nearby areas during the same time-period. However, the end products of construction projects are produced at their place of consumption, which means that large quantities of materials and resources need to be delivered to, and removed from, each construction site. This leads to new transport flows being created in connection to city development. These transport flows need to be coordinated to ensure efficient construction productivity and reduce the transports' environmental and social impact on the urban transport system. At the same time, it is important to ensure that construction sites can be managed from a logistics perspective without impairing efficiency due to the challenges of building in urban environments. Foreword Wow. This is it. I have finished my PhD journey! This would not have been possible without the support of the people around me. The following few humble lines are dedicated to the people who have been there through thick and thin during these five years. First and foremost, I want to thank my amazing supervisors, Anna Fredriksson and Martin Rudberg. Working with the two of you is a pleasure, and I have learned so much from the two of you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you! Secondly, I want to thank my friends and colleagues in the construction logistics group, past and present; Andreas Ekeskär, Henric Jonsson, Micael Thunberg, Yashar Gholami, Petter Haglund, Farah Naz, and Ahmet Sezer. I cannot thank you enough for all the laughter, and occasional serious discussions we have had through the years. Speaking of occasionally having serious conversations; thank you Ellen Grumert and Joakim Ekström! Thirdly, I want to thank all my colleagues at the division of Communications and Transport Systems, this place would not be the same without you. A special thank you to Viveka Nilson and Sophie Lindesvik, your help with, well, everything is invaluable. Thank you for keeping track of me and my travels when I don't seem to manage that myself. Fourth, a massive thank you to Martin Svanberg for reading, commenting, and discussing my dissertation during the final seminar. The end result is so much better thanks to you! Fifth, a few very special friends; Mats and Johan, thank you for worrying, celebrating, and providing a (mostly) healthy measure of banter, it helps! Mattias, thank you for always being there to share in mountainbike geekiness to distract my, at times, preoccupied mind. Calle and Ida (and Oscar of course!), it's been a weird year and I haven't seen you as much as I would have liked, but it means the world to me that you are in my ...

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Section: City Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Construction Logistics in a City Development Setting

Janné

2020

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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“…There have been several FLP studies [53,54] done in the recent years, however, they were focussed on identifying locations mainly for establishing urban consolidation centres (UCCs). Note that although CDPs are also a form of UCCs (in terms of the function to store and consolidate parcels near the consumption areas), the way last-mile deliveries take place via CDPs is different than the way they are done via UCCs [55]. Unlike UCCs, where parcels are delivered to consumers by a service provider, CDPs require parcels to be picked up by consumers, thereby requiring consumers to travel to CDPs.…”

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Establishing Collection and Delivery Points to Encourage the Use of Active Transport: A Case Study in New Zealand Using a Consumer-Centric Approach

2019

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The current and projected trends of growth in online shopping might change the activity and travel patterns in Christchurch, one of the largest cities in New Zealand. Online shopping might reduce consumers’ shopping trips, but it has substantially increased courier companies’ trips to deliver parcels to the end-consumers because a considerable proportion of parcels are often required to be redelivered due to consumers not being at home during the first delivery attempt. This also adds to the operational cost of courier companies and adverse traffic impacts. To mitigate these issues, collection-and-delivery points (CDPs) have recently been introduced in New Zealand on a trial basis. This study aims to identify the optimal density and locations for establishing CDPs in Christchurch using a modified p-median location-allocation (LA) model. A consumer-centric approach to locating CDPs has been adopted by considering the socio-demographic characteristics of Christchurch’s residents and the distances to/from CDPs. Non-traditional CDP locations (e.g., supermarkets and dairies) were considered as potential candidate facilities and were found to be more suitable as CDPs than traditional post shops. Based on consumers’ shopping pattern, supermarkets appeared to be the most frequently visited and preferred type of facility to be used as CDPs. However, the results of the LA analyses show that dairies are the most accessible locations, and CDPs at dairies located within two kilometres will encourage consumers to walk and cycle to receive their parcels from CDPs. The results suggest the optimal location configuration for each type of facility considered, based on their spatial distribution in the city.

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“…The result shows that the potential benefits of the UCC could generate from either improving the utilization of vehicle capacity through consolidation, or by shifting the location of distribution center to less expensive area. Van Heeswijk, Larsen [34] adopt the agent-based model simulations in the city of Copenhagen, to evaluate the UCC related urban logistics schemes. The results indicate that many schemes during the simulations can yield the benefits by reducing truck kilometers driven by up to 65% and emission reductions up to 70%.…”

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An Effects Analysis of Logistics Collaboration: The Case of Pharmaceutical Supplies in Seoul

Park

Chung

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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This paper estimates the environmental, social and financial effects of logistics collaboration of the existing logistics companies in Seoul, Korea. The truck routing models for collaborative and non-collaborative deliveries are proposed to estimate the collaboration effects. Findings show that both major and minor companies can benefit from logistics collaboration by saving delivery costs and time through economies of scale. The results from the study further indicate that logistics collaboration can mitigate negative environmental impacts resulting from urban logistics by reducing the number of delivery trucks, and shortening delivery times and travel distances. Discussion of related challenges that must be addressed during the implementation of logistic collaboration is included as well.

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An urban consolidation center in the city of Copenhagen: A simulation study

Cited by 56 publications

References 37 publications

Construction Logistics in a City Development Setting

Construction Logistics in a City Development Setting

Establishing Collection and Delivery Points to Encourage the Use of Active Transport: A Case Study in New Zealand Using a Consumer-Centric Approach

An Effects Analysis of Logistics Collaboration: The Case of Pharmaceutical Supplies in Seoul

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