The importance of external costs for assessing the potential of trams and trains for urban freight distribution

Langhe, Katrien De

doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2017.07.002

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“…The idea has been widely developed in France and Europe for interurban transport (Simonot, Roure 2007) but is now being applied to urban freight transport (Gonzalez-Feliu, Morana 2011; Gonzalez-Feliu, Salanova 2012; Morana et al 2014). Main researches on that field concern optimization issues, mainly vehicle routing and re-routing (Gonzalez-Feliu, Salanova 2012; Thompson, Hassall 2012;Gonzalez-Feliu, Salanova Grau 2015;Muñoz-Villamizar et al 2015, 2017Eitzen et al 2017) or supply chain planning (Ballot, Fontane 2010), and evidence-based studies of collabora-tion deployment, incentives and limitations (Gevaers et al 2011;Gonzalez-Feliu, Morana 2010Verlinde et al 2012;Morana et al 2014). Finally, impact and performance assessment start to be considered in specific researches about assessment and evaluation of urban freight transport pooling (Gonzalez-Feliu, Morana 2014; Morana, Gonzalez-Feliu 2015).…”

Section: Transport Pooling Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Urban Transport: State-of-the-Art and Research Opportunities

2018

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Transport systems are undergoing a change of paradigm that focuses on resource-sharing and collaboration of multiple and diverse stakeholders. This paper aims to present a state-of-the-art on the main research issues of multi-stakeholder collaboration in urban transport and address the main contributions of the Special Issue on Collaboration and Urban Transport to the field. To that end, it seems necessary to identify and address the complexity of the relations of the stakeholders in the field, beyond the traditional classification of private and public stakeholders. A functional classification of urban stakeholders related to the different land uses is proposed a refer to space users and space organizers, each with several sub-categories. Furthermore, the collaboration among those stakeholders can take different forms and can be developed at different levels: transactional, informational and decisional. Thus, the main research topics regarding multi-stakeholders’ collaboration are defined as: partnerships, resource sharing, resource pooling and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) systems. A set of papers in this special issue focus on Urban Consolidation Centres (UCCs), partnerships in transport under a general perspective, multi-stakeholder cooperation and its barriers, collaborative decision-making, traffic prediction and urban congestion. In the papers, which deal with the field of multi-stakeholder collaboration in urban transport, there is a predominance on the use of surveys, but also a focus on data-driven techniques. As a result, this special issue contributes not only to the theoretical aspects, but adds value to technical and methodological issues.

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Section: Transport Pooling Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Urban Transport: State-of-the-Art and Research Opportunities

2018

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“…The level of detail was the highest possible as different types of vehicles were taken into account for different urban networks (in geographical terms) and the analysis for air pollution included a breakdown of pollutants: SO 2 , PM2,5, CO 2 , N 2 O, CH 4 , VOS, NO X , etc. Data and results were also validated using relevant literature [61][62][63][64][65][66]. The external cost impacts of this analysis provide feedback on the sustainability analysis conducted in a next chapter.…”

Section: Road Chargingmentioning

confidence: 94%

Sustainability assessment of retail logistics solutions using external costs analysis: a case-study for the city of Antwerp

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Dewulf

Vanelslander

et al. 2018

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Purpose: Policy implementation in the logistics sector might drive unexpected side-effects which sometimes undermine the performance of key economic activities of logistics operators, especially in areas such as transport service, sustainability of operations, etc. Especially for the latter, there is a lack of understanding how the sustainability performance if retail logistics solutions is impacted on by policy implementation and, in turn, by operators' responsive measures. This paper conducts a sustainability analysis of concrete innovative and already tested retail logistics solutions addressing the research question "what are the effects of retail logistics solutions on total costs and sustainability performance?" Methods: The analysis relies on the development and application of an indicator-based framework based on the key sustainability components (economy, environment, society) and enriched by the addition of the transport component. The framework assesses three different scenarios together with a business-as-is one: Urban Consolidation Centre, Tethering and Shared Bus accompanied with a Strengths-Weaknesses analysis. Data are provided by an international food retailer operating within the city of Antwerp, Belgium, but conclusions can be generalized due to wider applicability of measures and solutions examined. Results: External costs analysis shows that higher degree of internalization is achieved in the line-haul transport. Within an urban context, the measures that do not require significant initial investment and broad interventions are assessed as the most sustainable in our analysis. Tethering is the solution that indicates the highest sustainability score. Conclusions: The impact of innovative and already tested solutions relies on a variety of factors: organizational, urban context, type of goods transported, engagement of stakeholders, etc.. In any case, innovation is crucial for urban retail logistics impacting on transport service, society, economy and environment. Any new retail business model should be designed with respect to cost efficiency and through a socially acceptable transition path.

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“…In terms of research content, most researchers used simulation to study the external benefits of M-ULS, such as reducing congestion, accident, noise, greenhouse gas emission, and air pollution [70,[72][73][74]. Zhou et al [68] and Brice et al [75] studied the train carrying capacity and dispatching plan of single-track transport by simulation.…”

Section: Rail Transit Coordinated Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Development Direction of Underground Logistics from the Perspective of Public Transport: A Systematic Review Based on Scientometrics

Zhang

Guo

2022

Sustainability

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Research on the underground logistics system (ULS) has been carried out for nearly 30 years, but the description of the global research network, research trends, and the discussion of advanced theories and practices have not been systematically reviewed so far. The concept of public freight has expanded a new development direction: metro-based underground logistics system (M-ULS). The purpose of this paper is to analyze this new model by taking underground logistics and public freight as the research object. We performed statistical analyses of 222 references and constructed three kinds of visualized bibliographic information experiments for regional collaboration, authorship collaboration, and keywords co-occurrence. Based on the scientometrics results, the evolution path of the literature evolution was drawn. We used cluster-analysis-based taxonomy to structure the recent relevant literature. According to the comprehensive review, the research stays in the theoretical research stage, mainly focusing on system concept and planning, traffic organization, and network operation. There is still a lack of discussion on engineering quantification and application implementation. Finally, this study highlights some brief ideas, discussions, and potential suggestions for future research. This bibliometric research is expected to provide researchers and practitioners with a panoramic description and in-depth understanding of ULS and M-ULS research.

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The importance of external costs for assessing the potential of trams and trains for urban freight distribution

Cited by 28 publications

References 13 publications

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Urban Transport: State-of-the-Art and Research Opportunities

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Urban Transport: State-of-the-Art and Research Opportunities

Sustainability assessment of retail logistics solutions using external costs analysis: a case-study for the city of Antwerp

New Development Direction of Underground Logistics from the Perspective of Public Transport: A Systematic Review Based on Scientometrics

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