Ho.Re.Ca. Logistics and Medieval Structured Cities: A Market Analysis and Typology

Potential of Implementing Urban Freight Strategies in the Accommodation and Food Services Sector

“…The results show that there is no correlation between being part of a chain and the number of carriers, meaning that being part of a chain does not necessarily imply being supplied by fewer carriers. This is in line with the findings from ( 3 ) who explain that some chains outsource logistics and thus deliveries are not necessarily optimized within the franchisors’ network. In this case, the distribution system resembles a big local and goods specialist typology where owners of a variety of goods distribute directly to receivers.…”

“…The set of thresholds, µ ( 1 ) < µ ( 2 ) < µ ( 3 ), are estimated concurrently with the utility function. The parameters and the values of the thresholds are computed via a likelihood maximization approach, and the quality of the model can be measured through the highest likelihood ratio index, i.e., Pseudo R 2 ( 23 ).…”

“…It covers establishments with a wide range of services offered, i.e., basic/luxury accommodation, catering, café and bakery services, fast food or fancy dinner. Verlinden, Van de Voorde et al ( 3 ) propose four different market typologies for this sector to characterize the flows and explain linkages: (i) small local specialists and cash-and-carry, (ii) big local and goods specialists, (iii) Ho.Re.Ca. supermarkets with deliveries, and (iv) franchises.…”

City logistics, urban goods distribution and last mile delivery and collection

“…Sectors are being investigated, for instance food and hotels/restaurants/catering (Ho.Re.Ca.) (Morganti, 2011; Verlinden et al, 2016), construction (Gonzalez-Feliu et al, 2014), retail (Quak, 2008) and other sectors (Boudoin et al, 2014). Thus, it is important to stress the need for identifying the scale and scope of the analysis in urban logistics.…”

Consolidation & coordination in urban freight transport

“…These networks function well due to economies of scale associated with the large total amounts of volume handled (Çetiner et al, 2010). Next, HoReCa logistics is for a large part composed of service logistics and food transport, therefore involving a lot of specific requirements that require tailored solutions (Verlinden et al, 2016). Construction logistics is often inefficiently organized, but typically revolves around temporary building projects, which makes this sector less suitable to study long-term solution concepts (Allen et al, 2012b).…”