Urban logistics and spatial territorial intelligence indicators: State-of-the-art, typology and implications for Latin American cities

Abstract

This paper reviews the state of the art in spatial accessibility and attractiveness indicators for urban freight transport and logistics, from a territorial intelligence and analytics viewpoint. It proposes a first typology of indicators and analyzes their potential in Latin American urban planning and development. After presenting the main notions of business intelligence and analytics, as well as a definition of territorial intelligence and analytics, the paper proposes an overview of territorial intelligence indicators, focusing on accessibility and attractiveness indicators, and a typology of five categories of indicators: infrastructure-based indicators, generation-based indexes, distance/ time/cost measures, gravity-based indicators and space-time compatibility indexes. Finally, the main issues for implementing such indicators are presented, in terms of data requirements and potential applications focusing on the Latin American context.

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“…Recently, freight transportation has acquired some relevance in urban planning policy, especially in large cities and even in the Latin American context [5,6]. Nevertheless, city logistics solutions are still not broadly explored by local public authorities in decision-making and most of the indicators considered to include freight movement in urban plans are not based on the spatial structure of the city [6][7][8][9].…”

“…Recently, freight transportation has acquired some relevance in urban planning policy, especially in large cities and even in the Latin American context [5,6]. Nevertheless, city logistics solutions are still not broadly explored by local public authorities in decision-making and most of the indicators considered to include freight movement in urban plans are not based on the spatial structure of the city [6][7][8][9]. Recent epistemological discussions regarding the needs to structure a more comprehensive analysis of urban systems have emerged, and a holistic approach has resulted in a paradigm shift, where integrated urban planning studies are performed, considering subsystems such as the location of activities, the land-use, and the transport structure [6,[10][11][12][13].…”

“…Nevertheless, city logistics solutions are still not broadly explored by local public authorities in decision-making and most of the indicators considered to include freight movement in urban plans are not based on the spatial structure of the city [6][7][8][9]. Recent epistemological discussions regarding the needs to structure a more comprehensive analysis of urban systems have emerged, and a holistic approach has resulted in a paradigm shift, where integrated urban planning studies are performed, considering subsystems such as the location of activities, the land-use, and the transport structure [6,[10][11][12][13]. Cumulative indicators and measures of centrality, concentration, accessibility, and attractiveness are already discussed in research work on urban freight planning but are not often considered in policymaking [6,[14][15][16][17].…”

“…Recent epistemological discussions regarding the needs to structure a more comprehensive analysis of urban systems have emerged, and a holistic approach has resulted in a paradigm shift, where integrated urban planning studies are performed, considering subsystems such as the location of activities, the land-use, and the transport structure [6,[10][11][12][13]. Cumulative indicators and measures of centrality, concentration, accessibility, and attractiveness are already discussed in research work on urban freight planning but are not often considered in policymaking [6,[14][15][16][17]. In strategic planning, these measures can be applied for urban freight transport management, relating to logistics demand generation (i.e.…”

“…In strategic planning, these measures can be applied for urban freight transport management, relating to logistics demand generation (i.e. the number of establishments) [18] and might result in an important contribution to urban planning [6,13,15,19].…”