Techniques for Smart Urban Logistics Solutions’ Simulation: A Systematic Review

Karakikes, Ioannis; Nathanail, Eftihia; Savrasovs, Mihails

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-12450-2_53

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“…In general, urban goods distribution is vital for economic development and city life [19,33]. However, world population growth, urbanization, consumerism, and e-commerce have increased urban goods flow and affected freight distribution [39,42]. The diverse and dynamic (spatially and temporally) nature of delivery needs in LML also affect the urban freight LML [2].…”

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“…Simulation model-based evaluations of urban freight solutions are increasing in recent years. This facilitates the development of knowledge base and enables many stakeholders to increase their understanding on the dynamic urban freight logistics systems [42]. Such simulation models could be used to develop and analyze different alternative freight LML systems.…”

Section: Opportunities For Improving Environmental Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Freight Last Mile Logistics—Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Sustainability: A Literature Review

Bosona

2020

Sustainability

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Last mile logistics (LML) is the least efficient and complex part of supply chain. The main objective of this study was to identify major challenges of urban freight LML and opportunities for intervention. For this, 42 peer-reviewed full papers published after 2010 and three additional references were used. The findings indicated that urban freight flow has a trend of steady growth. The main driving forces behind this steady growth are population growth, urbanization, densification, globalization, online and omni-channel (OC) retailing, and urban economic development. Using typology analysis, three main potential freight LML configurations were mapped and discussed. Freight LML configurations that involve light cargo vehicles and cargo bike-based delivery schemes could be the most sustainable freight LML models if the delivery failure is minimized. The LML challenges were categorized as technological, infrastructural, LML system and management, and logistic cost related challenges, and discussed broadly. Similarly, the potential opportunities were discussed from environmental, economic, and social sustainability aspects. Finally, this report has pinpointed future potential research agendas related to LML. The study could be a knowledge base useful for academicians and practitioners, logistics and technical service providers, policy makers, and customers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Opportunities For Improving Environmental Sustainabilitymentioning

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Urban Freight Last Mile Logistics—Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Sustainability: A Literature Review

Bosona

2020

Sustainability

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“…The small-batch production of customized and lighter products, also reducing logistics costs and stocks Environmental [20] Augmented Reality (AR)…”

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Smart City Logistics on the Basis of Digital Tools for ESG Goals Achievement

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The development of modern logistics systems requires state-of-the-art solutions for simultaneously achieving sustainable development goals and ambitious business targets. On this issue, the challenge of implementing digital technologies in social life, in particular in smart cities, deserves special attention. The diversified application of Industry 4.0 doctrine and digital shadow penetration to all fields of socioeconomic systems highlights the gaps in the design, control, and efficiency assessment of digital tools in the logistics of smart cities. Another challenge concerns the need to consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles amid the deployment of harmonic digital tools within urban territories. All these issues require a complex methodological approach toward understanding the role of IT in the modern economy through an ESG prism. The article contains a contemporary literature review on the related topic and the conceptual framework of city logistics digitalization under ESG perspectives and constraints. The mathematical model proposed by the researchers enables a multidimensional design of digital solution applications within smart city logistics performance. The designed discrete stochastic model is eligible for scaling toward and the further development of variables other than the key ones mentioned above. The mathematical formalization of the proposed model considers the distribution of the limited budgeting of administrative branches within city logistics, highlighting the research relevance in connection with the ESG principles.

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“…Analytically, all 26 initial solutions were matched with exactly one cluster of solutions, as determined by Papoutsis and Nathanail [54], and then ranked within each cluster based on the times of detection in a systematic literature review [55]. To the six pre-existed clusters of solutions, one more cluster was added which regarded the emerging solutions (Table 1).…”

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Using the Delphi Method to Evaluate the Appropriateness of Urban Freight Transport Solutions

Karakikes¹,

Nathanail²

2020

Smart Cities

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Before implementing an Urban Freight Transport (UFT) solution, certainty is required about the effectiveness of the considered alternatives. Selecting an effective solution necessitates the engagement of all stakeholders involved in the management of the UFT system. The aim of the study is the formulation of a common assessment platform for facilitating the selection of the most appropriate UFT solution, taking into account the solutions’ effectiveness and the stakeholder perceptions and consensus. Solution maturity, social acceptance, and user uptake, which are considered as the main drivers of stakeholders’ engagement, are evaluated based on a real time Delphi survey, in parallel with solutions’ sustainability dimensions (economy and energy, environment, society, transport, and mobility). The Delphi method emerges as a suitable tool in this direction as stakeholders’ subjective judgments, and not analytical techniques, are required. The platform is demonstrated through the assessment of ten UFT solutions by 184 stakeholders (public authorities, supply chain operators, and other interested groups) who reside in cities across the world. The results of the demonstration showed that Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for freight monitoring and electric vehicles are the highest rated solutions, while drone deliveries are the lowest, reaching respectively the highest and lowest consensus levels.

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Techniques for Smart Urban Logistics Solutions’ Simulation: A Systematic Review

Cited by 11 publications

References 66 publications

Urban Freight Last Mile Logistics—Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Sustainability: A Literature Review

Urban Freight Last Mile Logistics—Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Sustainability: A Literature Review

Smart City Logistics on the Basis of Digital Tools for ESG Goals Achievement

Using the Delphi Method to Evaluate the Appropriateness of Urban Freight Transport Solutions

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