The environmental assessment of urban goods movement

SEGALOU, E; Ambrosini, Christian; Routhier, Jean-Louis

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“…The last stage of the first phase is the construction of delivery routes for food supply. In literature, three categories of methods can be observed; empirical procedures [46,47]; analytic models [48,49] and route construction procedures [50,51]. The first two methods are quicker to implement and require fewer resources, but do not allow routes to be spatialized.…”

Section: Calculation Of the Daily Demand Of The Centralmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the economic and environmental impacts of urban food systems for public school canteens: case study of Great Lyon region

Palacios-Argüello

González-Feliu

Gondran

et al. 2018

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Purpose: Urban logistics is a subject that interests both city planners and researchers. Although many works are found in non-food distribution, food-based logistics is less studied in an urban context, and sustainability issues of urban food systems remain little analysed, but it is a crucial element for local public authorities. This paper proposes a methodology for assessing scenarios of advanced urban food logistics; more precisely to answer the question of how school canteen distribution scenarios can be assessed in an economic and environmental viewpoint. Methods: To deal with those issues, the paper proposes to develop a scenario assessment framework combining a demand estimation model, a transport supply estimation method and a set of evaluation indicators (for both economic and environmental impacts). The demand estimation model generates first a number of meals per canteen then transforms it into a food quantity, based on carrier's information and other practice's feedbacks; the transport estimation is made with a combination of route construction algorithms that reproduce the logic of current Transportation Management System (TMS). The economic evaluation is made via direct operational costs estimation (both fixed and variable) and the environmental evaluation using COPERT V for direct emission's assessment. Results: Three scenarios are assessed: the current situation with the operational warehouse, the use of an alternative platform in another location and the combination of both. To address the application issues, the proposed framework is compared to the use of disconnected commercial tools on the three scenarios. We observe that the first two scenarios are close in terms of travelled distances, times and costs. The third scenario, which involves two platforms, results on higher distances and times, and consequently on higher costs and higher for some of the environmental emissions. That scenario does not allow, with the considered demand, economies of scale (i.e. using less vehicles or in a more consolidated way). When comparing the two assessment methods, the proposed framework results on slightly higher travelled distances and times, but the same number of vehicles. However, results can be considered equivalent since the gap between the two assessment methods is in general around 5% for most indicators.

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Section: Calculation Of the Daily Demand Of The Centralmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the economic and environmental impacts of urban food systems for public school canteens: case study of Great Lyon region

Palacios-Argüello

González-Feliu

Gondran

et al. 2018

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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“…Marquez et al (2003) present a policy oriented model for the impact assessment of urban goods movement in relation to energy consumption, congestion and environmental concerns (pollution, greenhouse gas and noise) to help in local decision making. An environmental impact assessment model of urban goods movement aimed at local decision makers with plans for sustainable city development was developed by Segalou et al (2003). CL stakeholders through collaboration must seek improved vehicle routing and scheduling plans to address congestions and environmental pollutions within the city.…”

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A Macro and Micro-Level Evaluation of Stakeholders’ Collaboration for Sustainable City Logistics Operations

Adetiloye

Pervez

2015

OSCM: An Int. Journal

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City logistics involves movement of city goods in urban areas respecting the municipal and administrative guidelines. The key goals of city logistics planning are maximizing vehicle movement and utilization, while minimising vehicle emissions and traffic congestion. Collaboration is vital to managing city logistics operations efficiently. Collaboration can take place in the form of goods consolidation, sharing of resources, information sharing, and so on. Two categories of models are proposed to evaluate these collaboration strategies. At the macro level, we present the collaboration matrix model; and at the micro level, we present the operational level model. The macro-level model focuses on the strategic decision making process necessary for stakeholders' collaboration given the socio-cultural characteristics, economic, and environmental constraint factors, while the micro-level model applies the collaboration decision-making criteria derived from the macro-level analytic result to improve the activities of the city logistics operators. Results of the computational testing of our methodology on vehicle selection, goods to vehicle assignment, goods distribution and environmental impact assessment are discussed, showing that the collaboration strategies of stakeholders, if optimized, can improve city logistics operations. The proposed work is novel and has strong practical applicability for logistics planners and decision makers in planning right collaboration strategies for sustainable city logistics operations.

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“…In the last decades urban freight distribution became an important research subject, to answer to a more congested and polluted urban context (Dablanc, 2007). Recent studies have defined and characterized the different movements of urban goods (Ambrosini and Routhier, 2004;Ségalou et al, 2004;Patier et al, 2007;Gonzalez-Feliu et al, 2010a;Russo and Comi, 2011). Urban goods movements present several categories.…”

Section: Transport Strategies and Final Distributionmentioning

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Challenges in Last-Mile e-Grocery Urban Distribution: Have New B2C Trends a Positive Impact on the Environment?

González-Feliu

Durand

Andriankaja

2012

Environmental Issues in Supply Chain Management

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The business to consumer distribution services (B2C), mainly related to ecommerce, know nowadays a real boom that is sometimes accompanied by fractures. To better understand this fast-changing situation and support researchers and practitioners, this chapter proposes a scenario assessment analysis focused on the new B2C strategy trends and the joint coordination of e-commerce stakeholders to better optimize consumer's delivery flows. First, the two main logistics solutions adopted by online retailers are introduced. Second, the main customer's delivery services in France are presented. The proposed scenarios take into account the relations between urban development and B2C logistics schemes. Finally, the scenario assessment method is introduced then environmental impacts are estimated and analyzed each scenario.

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The environmental assessment of urban goods movement

Cited by 16 publications

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Assessing the economic and environmental impacts of urban food systems for public school canteens: case study of Great Lyon region

Assessing the economic and environmental impacts of urban food systems for public school canteens: case study of Great Lyon region

A Macro and Micro-Level Evaluation of Stakeholders’ Collaboration for Sustainable City Logistics Operations

Challenges in Last-Mile e-Grocery Urban Distribution: Have New B2C Trends a Positive Impact on the Environment?

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