Modeling Public Policies on Urban Freight Distribution: Tackling Emissions, Congestion, and Logistics Costs

The urban environment, logistics performance, and cities’ economic competitiveness can benefit greatly from programs that improve logistics efficiency and distribution networks, and as such, these improvements should be on policymakers’ radar. Since decisions originating in the private sector affect cities’ mobility and green-house-gas (GHG) emission levels, appropriate government responses to these issues are fundamental to achieve sustainable development in urban environments. The objective of this work is to increase the understanding on how policies focused on improving urban goods movement, such as dedicated infrastructure (freight corridors and platforms), traffic regulations (time window deliveries and vehicle constraints), city logistics network optimization, and voluntary cooperation (to achieve better consolidation levels between shippers and carriers), can contribute to economic and social development in metropolitan areas, whilst reducing or minimizing the emissions of GHGs. The authors developed a mathematical model to simulate the impacts that different policies could have on logistics costs, traffic level, congestion, and emissions.

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

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Fioravanti, Reinaldo
  • Guerrero, Pablo
  • Chung Cho, Eun
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
• Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Economic development; Logistics; Mathematical models; Pollutants; Public policy; Sustainable development; Traffic congestion; Urban goods movement
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01555493
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-3578
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 27 2015 10:03AM