Urban Logistics
by
Loic Delaitre
This comprehensive book provides an educational tool for engineering and management schools for an efficient implementation of urban logistics.
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This comprehensive book provides an educational tool for engineering and management schools for an efficient implementation of urban logistics. Based on the knowledge gathered by the scientific community over the last 15 years, it encompasses the different fields developed by urban logistics, presents the possible actions to be implemented to improve the system, explores the methods implemented, while using concrete examples, and offers the latest advances in the field. Urban Logistics is an ideal educational tool for engineering and management students and professionals involved in efficient implementation of urban logistics.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
City:
London
Pages:
288
More info:
height 250 mm
width 150 mm
weight 360 gr
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Age recommended:
Professional and scholarly
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC23) 307.76
Departments:
Human geography;
Record updated at:
23 May, 2013
time:
20:33
Summary
Urban Logistics
Summary Introduction Context and definitions of urban logistics Definitions of urban logistics Goods taken into account Actors involved Problems Functional challenges Economic challenges Environmental and social challenges A very diverse issue An issue at the heart of many contradictions Conclusion about the context Approaches and concrete actions Experimental approaches European projects National projects Local initiatives Which solutions? Tools for a local government For a better use of facilities / intermodality For an easier access Developing proximity storage Using suitable vehicles Partnerships between actors Regulating Qualitative review of results Possible initiatives for an industrial actor Night-time deliveries New technologies to ensure deliveries Remodeled logistical organization of the last link Modeling approaches Specificity of the modeling of the TMV Retrospection on the modeling of the TMV Traditional 4-stage model approach "Trip-based" modeling approaches "Commodity-Based" modeling approaches Decision support tools for TMV WIVER GOODTRIP FRETURB DALSIM Emerging models of new logistical devices Conclusion on TMV models and tools New challenges The challenge of real estate for local governments Anticipation for industrialists Diversity of flows for transport operator Delivery and certification Conclusion Bibliography
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