Urban freight delivery

This paper proposes a collaborative process to handle demands received by a carrier for urban goods’ delivery. The purpose of this article is to provide support for carriers analyzing the demands, physical resources, human resources, risks and profitability, in order to decide processing internally or externally a goods’ delivery demand or rejecting it. Such a process, called CUFP (Collaborative Urban Freight Process), is based on an analysis of urban movements of goods, divided into four stages: check out of extreme conditions, feasibility study, exploitation study and execution.

15p longtimenosee10 26-04-2024 3 1   Download

In the paper "Urban characterization by the green supply chain management concept: A review" a new model is developed for the design of sustainable supply chains with a focus on cities that captures the frequency of network link operations, which is especially relevant to cities due to frequent freight deliveries. Descriptive interviews were reviewed thoroughly with the conceptualization of the substantiated philosophy as a sociological technique of examination.

10p longtimenosee07 29-03-2024 4 2   Download

This paper presents an ‘ex ante’ decision support tool to evaluate the economic and ecologic impacts of shippers’ horizontal collaboration in urban freight delivery.

18p tohitohi 22-05-2020 20 0   Download

In the context of city logistics, freight transportation is one of the prominent causes of traffic congestion, high levels of pollution, and safety concerns. To decrease the negative impact of these issues, different methods have been traditionally implemented. On the one hand, the location of urban consolidation Centers (UCCs) near a city can be used to consolidate freight delivery services.

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