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Prof. Dr. Juliang Zhang
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Department of Logistics Management, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: city logistics and transportation

Prof. Dr. Wenchao Wei
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Department of Logistics Management, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: logistics management; sequencing and scheduling

Dr. Yefei Yang
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Department of Logistics Management, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: logistics management; sustainable supply chain

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Dear colleagues,

Cities are the centers of economic and social life in modern civilization, which means that the movement of goods concerning both interurban and urban contexts is vital. The booming increase in the need for urban freight transport during the last two decades has put considerable strain on urban infrastructure and imposes high social and environmental costs. Towards the alleviation of the consequences, decision-makers have considered various solutions, which do not always result in the desired impacts.

This Special Issue aims to gain insights into the sustainable development of urban freight transport, city logistics and transportation. We welcome papers that propose effective city logistics initiatives and take an integrated approach to addressing urban freight problems.

Specifically, the guest editors encourage submissions of original research articles that report significant research contributions including, but not limited to:

Forecasting pertaining to urban freight transport;
Smart solutions for city logistics and transportation;
The designing of urban loading/unloading zone systems;
The complexity of interconnecting interurban and urban freight transport;
An integrated evaluation framework for city logistics and supply chain management;
The impact of city logistics on city performance and business viability and sustainability.

Prof. Dr. Juliang Zhang
Prof. Dr. Wenchao Wei
Dr. Yefei Yang
Guest Editors

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city logistics
urban freight transport

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Data-Driven Public R&D Project Performance Evaluation: Results from China

Hongbo Li

Bowen Yao

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Xin Yan

Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7147; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137147 - 25 Jun 2021

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In public R&D projects, to improve the decision-making process and ensure the sustainability of public investment, it is indispensable to effectively evaluate the project performance. Currently, public R&D project management departments and various academic databases have accumulated a large number of project-related data. In view of this, we propose a data-driven performance evaluation framework for public R&D projects. In our framework, we collect structured and unstructured data related to completed projects from multiple websites. Then, these data are cleaned and fused to form a unified dataset. We train a project performance evaluation model by extracting the project performance information implicit in the dataset based on multi-classification supervised learning algorithms. When facing a new project that needs to be evaluated, its performance can be automatically predicted by inputting the characteristic information of the project into our performance evaluation model. Our framework is validated based on the project data of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in terms of four performance measures (i.e., Accuracy, Recall, Precision, F1 score). In addition, we provide a case study that applies our framework to evaluate the project performance in the logistics and supply chain area of NSFC. In conclusion, this paper contributes to the body of knowledge in sustainability by developing a data-driven method that equips the decision-maker with an automated project performance evaluation tool to make sustainable project decisions. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Urban Freight Transport, City Logistics and Transportation)

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A Conceptual Model Based on the Activity System and Transportation System for Sustainable Urban Freight Transport

Demostenis Ramos Cassiano

Bruno Vieira Bertoncini

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Leise Kelli de Oliveira

Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5642; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105642 - 18 May 2021

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Urban freight transport (UFT) is simultaneously responsible for maintaining the urban lifestyle and the negative externalities impacting urban areas, necessitating strategies that promote sustainable urban freight transport (SUFT). In addition, the stakeholders and geographic factors involved in UFT impose specific concerns in the planning and operation stages of SUFT. Therefore, this paper proposes a model addressing sustainable last-mile delivery considering the relationship between the activity system, transportation system, and stakeholders involved in UFT. Based on the literature review, we identified UFT planning procedures to achieve SUFT. In a cyclical process, these procedures were considered on the proposed model, integrating freight transport planning with urban planning to develop SUFT and, consequently, sustainable cities. Full article

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