City Logistics: A Chaos between Research and Policy Making? A Review
Although the interest in urban freight transport is growing, it is commonly seen as an area where there is, for several reasons, a lack of research, especially if it is compared with the amount of research that deals with passenger transport. The attention of governments especially for urban goods movement has increased over recent years and with that the number of studies in the urban goods movement field. However, the practice of city logistics policies is not very often the result of detailed analyses and evaluations. This is reflected in similar types of regulations repeated through the different cities regardless of their characteristics, the same schedules for time windows and load zones, and the failure to recognize different types of urban distribution which require different types of regulations. Apart from copying regulation frameworks, however, cities hardly share information, knowledge or cooperation. The lack of national or regional bodies dealing with city logistics, as there exist for urban passenger traffic, is significant. In this paper the authors address the main research contributions in city logistics and try to illustrate how the research contributions are (not) related to the daily practice of policymaking and town planning. Finally the paper ends with the conclusion that a real gap exists between research and practice and the paper provides some explanations, conditions and directions for setting up new research projects.
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Corporate Authors:
Ashurst Lodge
Ashurst, Southampton United Kingdom SO40 7AA -
Authors:
- van Duin, J H R
- Quak, H J
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Conference:
- Urban Transport XIII. Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century
- Location: Coimbra , Portugal
- Date: 2007-9-3 to 2007-9-5
- Publication Date: 2007
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 135-146
- Monograph Title: Urban Transport XIII. Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: City planning; Delivery service; Delivery vehicles; Freight traffic; Loading and unloading; Logistics; Policy making; Research; Urban goods movement
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Policy; Public Transportation; Research;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01081237
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9781845640873
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Nov 26 2007 9:57AM