Modeling and Analyzing the Effects of Differentiated Urban Freight Measures − A Case Study of the Food Retailing Industry

This paper examines the effects of differentiated urban transport policies in a real world scenario of food retailers in the city of Berlin. A microscopic model is constructed which maps several tactical and operational logistics decisions. It is an optimization problem for individual firms which is solved heuristically considering time-of-day dependent transport costs. The impacts of urban freight transport policies that differentiate between area, time-of-day and vehicle type are discussed and evaluated by the variations of distribution costs and environmental indicators. The model shows that policy measures restricted to a certain area and vehicle-types, can have significant impact on the whole area under examination.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT025 Urban Freight Transportation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Schroder, Stefan
  • Liedtke, Gernot
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 23p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Costs; Food industry; Freight transportation; Microscopic traffic flow; Transportation policy; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Berlin (Germany)
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516523
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-5015
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM