Microdepots in City Logistics

City logistics is all transport, including flows of goods within the city, which ensures the operation of shops, services and business activities. The problem of logistics is extensive and above all parking spaces in traffic jams, insufficient number of spaces, but constantly tightening emission requirements and a number of other factors. Every city is different and so are the supply options in given city locations. However, what is common in most cases is the lack of suitable logistics spaces in the city center and in the immediate vicinity. Traffic is also complicated by many parked cars, which sometimes make it impossible to even temporarily stop the vehicle, let alone handle the goods.Currently, there are several options for solving this group of problems. Ever-tightening emission requirements are pushing internal combustion cars out of city centers. As a result, carriers are being pushed into electromobility or other alternatives for supplying the so-called last mile. This term characterizes, for example, the microdepots network. These depots are most often located in abandoned parking lots and are operated by the given transport company. Prague participates financially in the operation of these depots.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.150
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146523004465
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  • © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Hrouda, Matěj
  • Kodym, Oldřich
• Conference:
  • TRANSCOM 2023: 15th International Scientific Conference on Sustainable, Modern and Safe Transport
  • Location: Mikulov , Czech Republic
  • Date: 2023-5-29 to 2023-5-31
• Publication Date: 2023

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 315-322
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 74
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2352-1465
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Delivery vehicles; First mile and last mile; Intermodal terminals; Supply chain management; Sustainable development
• Geographic Terms: Prague (Czech Republic)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01916430
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 23 2024 10:49AM