Advances in Green City Logistics

Dear Colleagues,

Development of sustainable, environmentally friendly urban freight transport systems become the most significant challenge for the present cities authorities, logistics operators, deliverers, purchasers as well as the manufacturers (especially vehicles producers) and other urban freight transport stakeholders. Due to fast growth of urban areas and the number of city dwellers as well as the increasing importance of e-commerce in regular business practices, it is important to find the solutions, which will help to reduce the negative impact of the transport systems on cities environment. That all is one of the most important aspect helped to make our cities more friendly for their users.

This special issue will include the papers focused on different topics related to the development of sustainable urban freight transport and implementation of environmentally friendly solutions at city areas. The authors should focus on the influence of urban freight transport on environment including the goods distribution in different city types, the safety problems in urban freight transport, the new trends in ecologistics, development of innovative measures based on computerization of urban infrastructure and utilization of telematics systems in urban freight distribution, utilization of alternative delivering systems as well as alternative fuelled vehicles, implementation of the UFT systems based on different transport modes. The special attention will be paid on the data acquisition systems for city logistics management and development.

Dr. Stanisław Iwan
Dr. Kinga Kijewska
Dr. Leise Kelli Oliveira
Guest Editors

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