Smart city for sustainable urban freight logistics

Abstract

Sustainability has become an important objective of city logistics management. Smart city, being a technology and data driven paradigm for a city's sustainable development, has entailed new research opportunities from different perspectives. It is foreseeable that smart city will keep evolving in the domain of city logistics, which plays a key role in this game changing evolution. Recent research in this field is characterised by interdisciplinary approaches and disruptive innovations. We review the state-of-the-art of this general area and conduct a bibliometric analysis. We conclude with a new conceptual framework of smart city for sustainable urban freight logistics and the relevant key perspectives.

Smart Sustainable City Manufacturing and Logistics: A Framework for City Logistics Node 4.0 Operations

“…Reducing the distance between the producer and the consumer makes this zone of the megapolis (the large city without a historical part) the most attractive for CMFM cluster placement [5]. The use of warehouses and logistics centers on the outskirts of a large city to serve CMFM clusters creates a number of problems regarding the supply of materials and components for production and for the distribution of finished products and goods, due to the increased intensity of urban traffic within the cluster and beyond, the need to find parking spaces for freight transport, and the increased energy demand for transport purposes [3]. In order to ensure the proper operation of the SC in the megapolis, the logistics facilities inside the megapolis must be connected to the logistics facilities outside it.…”

“…Despite the absence of CMFM clusters in this part of the smart city, small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises with sustainable technologies and products operate within it. However, due to the restrictions on the entry of e-trucks and trucks into this green part of the large city, in most cases, freight-transportation bicycles and the individual vehicles of local residents are used [3,75].…”

“…A smart sustainable approach within the CMFM cluster's activities covers a wide range of economic, social, and environmental issues, including the reduction of lead times; overstocking of cluster enterprises and CLN4.0; freight traffic flows under supply uncertainty by the CCs, which are selected in accordance with their delivery points; the compatibility of the transported freights; and their full handling [5,49,80]. The implementation of such a smart sustainable approach in the framework of these problems is associated with the use of integrated production and SC planning and scheduling [81][82][83] and smart SCM technologies [40,48,76], as well as smart city technologies and indicators for city manufacturing and freight logistics [3,24,46]. Initially, the integrated production and SC planning of the CMFM cluster's enterprises are carried out, considering the compatibility with already planned SCs, both within the cluster and its CLN4.0, and within the megalopolis.…”

“…The recommended time of a light e-truck arrival to the CMFM building or CLN4.0, the best route of delivery, and the designated parking place for loading-unloading operations can be sent to the driver or operator of the vehicle from the DSP. The freight vehicle management within the CMFM cluster and the megapolis should be aimed at reducing the need to find parking places outside the buildings and the CLN4.0, guided by the principle of just-in-time, which positively affects urban traffic [3,4].…”

“…The large smart city and megapolis provide a wide range of digital services and technologies with which to meet the needs of the population and the sustainable development of the agglomeration. Instant information support in the day-to-day decision making by the population cannot always be quickly implemented when purchasing products and goods in high demand, due to logistical and transport problems [1][2][3]. The situation is complicated by the fact that the population is forced to purchase many goods and services for everyday needs, not from local manufacturers, but from far beyond the megapolis, which leads to expectations of supplies and unjustified interregional or international freight traffic of consumer goods, from manufacturer to consumer.…”