Supporting the adoption of electric vehicles in urban road freight transport – A multi-criteria analysis of policy measures in Germany

Taefi, Tessa T.; Kreutzfeldt, Jochen; Held, Tobias; Fink, Andréas

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2016.06.003

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“…Since the 2000s, the advent of e-commerce and pervasive technologies changed the logistics and freight transportation dramatically, with an increase of the deliveries to the Business-to-Consumer segments in the urban areas and the competition of e-commerce giant platform to cope with the increasing requests for fast and cheap deliveries. Moreover, the awareness of the environmental impact of transportation activities as well as the significant congestion and environmental nuisances encourage the use of non-motorized transport to move people and goods (e.g., bikes and cargo bikes), self-service kiosks (i.e., lockers), and collaborative business models [2][3][4]. As [5,6] point out, the integration of different delivery alternatives is unfortunately not simple due to the relationships and disputes among actors, their business models and the technologies themselves.…”

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A Managerial Analysis of Urban Parcel Delivery: A Lean Business Approach

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The improper integration of traditional transportation modes with low emissions vehicles can generate a price war that reduces the service quality, undermining the efficiency and the profitability of parcel delivery operators. This paper aims to provide managerial insights to design a win-win strategy for the co-existence of traditional and green business models. In doing so, we adopt a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates a qualitative analysis through a Lean Business methodology, named GUEST, with a quantitative analysis based on simulation-optimisation techniques. This kind of holistic vision has received little attention in the literature. The first analysis investigates the parcel delivery industry with an emphasis on the main business models involved, their costs and revenues structures, while the quantitative part aims to simulate the system and extract sustainable policies. In particular, results highlight that in deploying mixed-fleet policies, the decision-makers have to focus both on the environmental sustainability that benefits from the adoption of low-emission vehicles, and on the operational feasibility and economic sustainability of the two services. In this direction, the paper suggests some managerial insights concerning the split of the customer demand between traditional and green operators, according to the classes of parcels and geographical areas of the city.

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A Managerial Analysis of Urban Parcel Delivery: A Lean Business Approach

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“…Road transport is very important in this context, because it is responsible for the majority of external costs (Korzhenevych et al, 2014). According to Taefi et al (2016), electric vehicles could be a good solution to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions related to urban road freight transport. However, the use of EVs is far to be widespread, because they are often considered as too expensive to acquire outside of the pilot projects.…”

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The Bristol-Bath Urban freight Consolidation Centre from the perspective of its users

Paddeu

2017

Case Studies on Transport Policy

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Urban freight consolidation centres are part of the city logistics measures that aim to reduce the negative impacts related to urban freight transport activities, whilst at the same time providing a more seamless, higher-value logistics experience for their users. By collecting the goods destined to the target area and consolidating deliveries into one large delivery made by high-load vehicles, urban consolidation centres can relieve congestion and improve air quality. Significant benefits also accrue to the participating retailers, e.g. improved staff productivity and safety, the provision of pre-retailing services and recycling of packaging.The paper draws on the experiences of the Bristol-Bath Urban Consolidation Centre (BBUCC), established in 2002 to serve Bristol city centre and uniquely extended in 2011 to cover Bath, each served by electric lorries; it appraises the benefits of shared 'last mile' freight services focusing in particular on the perspective of its users: the participating retailers.

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“…However, it takes a lot of time for some innovative technologies that can fundamentally improve the negative effects of logistics to move from laboratory to application. Applications such as the EV took decades to implement [125]. Although the technology is constantly updated and improved, more management lag.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Green and Sustainable Logistics: Bibliometric Analysis, Research Trend and Knowledge Taxonomy

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Dong

Sun

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IJERPH

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Ever-growing globalization and industrialization put forward impending requirements for green and sustainable logistics (G&SL). Over the past decades, G&SL initiatives triggered worldwide deliberations, aiming at easing negative transport externalities and improving supply chain performance. This review-based paper attempts to offer a joint quantitative and qualitative understanding for the overall evolutionary trend, knowledge structure, and literature gaps of the G&SL research field. Employing the science mapping approach, a total of 306 major paper published from 1999 to 2019 were retrieved, elaborated on, and synthesized. Visualized statistics regarding publication years, journal allocation/co-citation, inter-country/institution collaboration, influential articles, co-occurred keywords, and time view clusters of research themes were analyzed bibliographically. On this basis, a total of 50 sub-branches of G&SL knowledge were classified and thematically discussed based on five alignments, namely (i) social-environmental-economic research, (ii) planning, policy and management, (iii) application and practice, (iv) technology, and (v) operations research. Finally, the current knowledge obstacles and the future research opportunities were suggested. The findings contribute to portray a systematic intellectual prospect for the state quo, hotspots, and academic frontiers of G&SL research. Moreover, it provides researchers and practitioners with heuristic thoughts to govern transportation ecology and logistics service quality.

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Supporting the adoption of electric vehicles in urban road freight transport – A multi-criteria analysis of policy measures in Germany

Cited by 74 publications

References 22 publications

A Managerial Analysis of Urban Parcel Delivery: A Lean Business Approach

A Managerial Analysis of Urban Parcel Delivery: A Lean Business Approach

The Bristol-Bath Urban freight Consolidation Centre from the perspective of its users

A Systematic Literature Review of Green and Sustainable Logistics: Bibliometric Analysis, Research Trend and Knowledge Taxonomy

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