Optimizing Urban Freight Deliveries: From Designing and Testing a Prototype System to Addressing Real Life Challenges

In this article, the authors present efforts towards building a city-wide freight delivery rounds optimization system aimed at leveraging city traffic information to optimize professional vehicle rounds. This project, called SmartDeliveries, has been developed as part of the OptimodLyon project. The authors present the system's architecture and general objective. Then the authors present early evaluations which have led us to identify three main technical challenges to address, but also to quantify the potential productivity gains for its users: 18% in distance savings and 11% in time. This could lead, if the system were to be generalized at the scale of the city, to a reduction in as much as 5% in traffic, and to corresponding savings in emissions, which are the primary motivation of the project leaders. Finally the authors discuss the remaining challenges to address, from a technical as well as an organizational standpoint, to introduce real life implementation of the system.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2016.02.056
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146516000570
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2016 Thomas Baudel et al. Published by Elsevier B.V.
• Authors:
  • Baudel, Thomas
  • Dablanc, Laetitia
  • Alguiar-Melgarejo, Penelope
  • Ashton, Jean
• Publication Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 170-180
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 12
  • 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 service; Environmental impacts; Freight traffic; Optimization; Prototypes; Traffic congestion; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01600511
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 26 2016 2:50PM