Modeling Approaches to Address Urban Freight’s Challenges: A Comparison of the United States and Europe

The rise in urbanization at a global level has reinforced the need to understand complex city growth patterns and rapidly changing urban systems. These urban environments present special challenges to the movement of people and goods. The flow of freight is essential to the growth and functioning of cities but also contributes to problems such as congestion, air pollution, and degradation of the urban environment. Researchers bring insight to these challenges through their work. Analytical models support a better understanding of urban freight and constitute an important tool in addressing these problems. This paper identifies the problems that urban freight research aims to address in Europe and the United States; provides a better understanding of existing data, analytical tools, and methods; and lays out some gaps and challenges in addressing these problems with existing resources.

• Record URL:
  • https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22456
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• Authors:
  • Browne, Michael
  • Goodchild, Anne
• Conference:
  • City Logistics Research: A Transatlantic Perspective
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 2013-5-30 to 2013-5-31
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 77-92
• Monograph Title: City Logistics Research: A Transatlantic Perspective. Summary of the First EU-U.S. Transportation Research Symposium
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Issue Number: 50
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cities; Freight traffic; Mathematical models; Research; Traffic models; Urban goods movement
• Geographic Terms: European Union countries; United States
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01517326
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309294874
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 5 2014 3:28PM