Construction Logistics in a City Development Setting

Abstract

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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