Urban Micro-Consolidation and Last Mile Goods Delivery by Freight-Tricycle in Manhattan: Opportunities and Challenges
New York City (NYC) must identify new strategies to address severe urban delivery challenges resulting from congested roads and inadequate loading space. One solution with the potential to achieve benefits for the city, for carriers, and for shippers while making use of the city's rapidly growing bicycle infrastructure is freight distribution from an urban micro-consolidation center (UMC) via human-powered or electrically-aided freight-tricycle. UMCs have been successfully implemented in Paris and London; this study details the results of a comparative analysis evaluating economic, infrastructure, and regulatory conditions in the three cities for the purpose of identifying opportunities and challenges for future implementation in Manhattan.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT025 Urban Freight Transportation
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Conway, Alison
- Fatisson, Pierre-Emmanuel
- Eickemeyer, Penny
- Cheng, Jialei
- Peters, Diniece
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
- Date: 2012
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 18p
- Monograph Title: TRB 91st Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycle travel; Delivery service; Delivery vehicles; Freight consolidators; Logistics; Tricycles; Urban goods movement
- Geographic Terms: Manhattan (New York, New York)
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01365613
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 12-2682
- Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Mar 20 2012 2:58PM