National Transportation Planning: Dimensions and Challenges

Mertins, Herman

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“…Unfortunately, little guidance from stakeholders, poorly defined research and urban system improvement goals, and limited centralized governance over a single urban area's cities and societies complicated the pursuit of tangible advancements and additional funding (Blaine 1967; Smerk 1971). Furthermore, the federal government's focus on outcomes specific to certain urban subsystems, such as local governments and single projects of limited scope (Horn 1978; Kim 1979), diminished the works' perceived contributions (Mertins 1971). Eventually, limited data availability, the absence of measurable objectives, and “muddled thinking toward mass transportation” (Smerk 1979, 32) led to reduced federal funding and a resultant decline of urban logistics research in the 1980s (Dicer 1993; Gleason and Barnum 1982).…”

Section: The Current State Of Urban Logistics Scholarshipmentioning

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Urban Logistics: Establishing Key Concepts and Building a Conceptual Framework for Future Research

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The world is rapidly urbanizing, causing businesses to rethink venerable principles related to logistics and distribution. As populations urbanize and customer service expectations escalate, firms seek new ways to serve urban customers but are often frustrated by numerous complexities inherent to the urban context. Through a systematic literature review, this research combines concepts and theories from multiple nonbusiness disciplines in order to provide a foundation for understanding the urban environments within which logistics activities increasingly occur. In doing so, our review serves as a genesis for urban logistics theory development. The research identifies three distinct urban logistics stakeholder groups, each of which influences, directly or indirectly, urban logistics operations, and then uncovers four urban environmental characteristics that impede the implementation of traditional logistical systems and processes. Our analysis thereby enables managers to develop new logistical strategies that are suited to specific urban environments.

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Urban Logistics: Establishing Key Concepts and Building a Conceptual Framework for Future Research

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Tailoring Transportation Planning Decisions to Diverse Urban Environments

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As the world's population continues to urbanize, providing efficient and effective logistics service to customers in urban areas has become an increasingly important, but difficult task. Recent vehicle routing studies suggest that logistics planners face numerous difficulties during decision‐making due to certain complexities associated with the urban environment, but to date, specific challenges have remained unidentified. Using a multiple case study methodology, this research examines several environmental characteristics that influence vehicle routing decisions across eight U.S. urban centers, and contrasts decisions firms make when creating solutions to address these factors. Cross‐case synthesis uncovered patterns connecting specific environmental characteristics with variations on traditional vehicle routing decisions. Results allow us to construct a theoretical framework and propositions to guide managers when tailoring urban logistics strategies to urban environments having different combinations of structural characteristics.

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National Transportation Planning: Dimensions and Challenges

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Urban Logistics: Establishing Key Concepts and Building a Conceptual Framework for Future Research

Urban Logistics: Establishing Key Concepts and Building a Conceptual Framework for Future Research

Tailoring Transportation Planning Decisions to Diverse Urban Environments

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