The Limits of Public Policy Intervention in Urban Logistics: Lessons from Vicenza (Italy)

Ville, Sandrine; González-Feliu, Jesús; Dablanc, Lætitia

doi:10.1080/09654313.2012.722954

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“…Benjelloun and Crainic (2009) note that consolidation takes place at UCCs, and goods from different shippers and LSPs are consolidated. Other definitions of UCC exist as well; Ville et al (2013) use Browne et al (2005) but add that local authorities commonly financier the UCC. van Rooijen and Quak (2010) define it as:…”

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Urban Consolidation Centres : On Relationships between Customer Needs and Services in City Logistics

Johansson

2018

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Licentiate Thesis

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Urban Consolidation Centres (UCCs) are often conceived as an enabler to alleviate negative effects associated with distribution of goods in cities, such as traffic congestion and hazardous emissions. UCCs not only have the potential to reduce these effects but also provide alternative distribution solutions by introducing new transhipment points. Despite their potential, UCCs often fail to be self-supporting and are often dependent on subsides, which is not considered to be sustainable in the long run. In response, this thesis takes its point of departure in the two business models elements value propositions and target customers. A business model is often viewed as an enabler to generate revenue and UCCs have the potential to generate revenue by offering services to their customers, and the customers pay for the services. To understand how customers can benefit from UCCs and provide arguments why they should use these, it is important to understand the relationship between customers' needs and the services UCCs can provide. The purpose of this thesis is to identify and describe the potential relationship between needs of UCC customers and UCC services.The research in the thesis is both explorative and descriptive, where a first step is to identify customer needs, UCC services, and value propositions. The descriptive part is to describe them and it is also the foundation for understanding the relationship between customer needs and UCC services. Through the analysis and discussion, multiple customer needs are identified and described for seven customer groups and the UCC operator; all of which could be considered customers of UCCs. The thesis also adds to the UCC literature with three new identified UCC services: e-commerce with used products, advertisement, and registration in computer system. The outcome of the analysis also provides illustrations of how customer needs can be matched with UCC services. For the most studied customer group, receiver of goods, a total of 29 different matches were identified, which illustrates the possibilities but also the complexity of the relationships. To understand the relationship, three different types of gaps were also identified that have implications for future research.The main contributions to research and the UCC literature in particular are enlargement of the scope of customers and the illustration of the relationships between customer needs and UCC services. The illustrations include contributions such as identifying, mapping and describing the customer needs, UCC services, and value propositions. An important first step is to understand how customer needs and UCC services can be linked, and this thesis provides examples of how this can be achieved. Viewing every stakeholder as a potential customer opens up the opportunity to fulfil their needs and the potential to generate revenue, which in turn could close the gap in the problem of non-self-supporting UCCs. Furthermore, with self-supporting UCCs, the number of freight vehicles can be reduced and this may l...

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Urban Consolidation Centres : On Relationships between Customer Needs and Services in City Logistics

Johansson

2018

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Licentiate Thesis

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“…Urban consolidation centres (UCCs) are a popular measure in city logistics (Verlinde et al, 2012;Ville et al, 2012). They have been subject to many trial projects and implementation cases.…”

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Applying the Supply Chain Operations Reference (Scor) Model for the Evaluation of Several Urban Consolidation Centre Operating Models

Janjevic¹,

Nsamzinshuti²,

Rigo³

et al. 2017

World Conference on Supply Chain Management

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Urban Consolidation Centres (UCCs) are a popular measure in city logistics, but many of the UCC projects are granted only a short life. These facilities are often view as creating benefits for the society and costs for the private sector. Recent research and experiences show however that additional value-added activities performed in these platforms are able to increase the attractiveness of these city logistics schemes. This paper proposes the application of the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model in order to assess the impact of the UCCs on the overall supply chain performance. Authors first perform a review of current evaluation techniques for the UCC projects and highlight the relevance of a supply chain focused approach. They present the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model and discuss its relevance for the evaluation of UCC projects. They then analyse 10 recent UCC case studies which leads to highlighting the existence of three distinct operating models. Finally, they apply the SCOR model to the different UCC operating models. The study confirms the UCCs on the reliability, responsiveness and agility of the supply chains. This brings an innovative aspect to the UCC projects evaluation which traditionally only focuses on cost, environmental or asset utilisation related metrics.

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“…In this context, the local administrators are looking at city logistics measures to limit these types of urban freight impacts (Russo and Comi [3]; Lindhom and Behrends [4]; Danielis et al [5]; Ville et al [6]), and models for ex-ante plan safety assessment have to be used.…”

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From the analysis of European accident data to safety assessment for planning: the role of good vehicles in urban area

Russo

Comi

2017

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Purpose Within the field of goods vehicles mobility, the paper points out the road safety that has impacts on both social and economic sustainability spheres. The contribution of goods vehicles is investigated and the results obtained for the larger European countries are discussed. Methods The used methodology is statistic-descriptive, extracting from a large available database successive and more in-depth information. Starting from aggregated (at national level) data for accidents involving goods vehicles in urban area, the paper evidences the urban junctions as the main critical situation for accidents. Results One of the main findings is that urban goods vehicle accidents received little attention, but being an important segment of urban mobility, much remains to do for reaching the zero-accident EU goal by 2050 in this segment. Conclusions The paper, in the context of European urban planning, finalises the analysis results, reviewing the main methods to assess road accidents, and linking mobility simulation and safety simulation models. The findings of this study can represent the base for developing successful city plan. In fact, paper provides some indications to researchers and city planners for identifying which are the main factors to be investigated and monitored for improving urban road safety.

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The Limits of Public Policy Intervention in Urban Logistics: Lessons from Vicenza (Italy)

Cited by 64 publications

References 10 publications

Urban Consolidation Centres : On Relationships between Customer Needs and Services in City Logistics

Urban Consolidation Centres : On Relationships between Customer Needs and Services in City Logistics

Applying the Supply Chain Operations Reference (Scor) Model for the Evaluation of Several Urban Consolidation Centre Operating Models

From the analysis of European accident data to safety assessment for planning: the role of good vehicles in urban area

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