This work is aimed at analyzing potential links between reverse logistics and urban logistics and describing opportunities for collaboration between both areas of research. A description of the current state-of-the-art is provided in order to highlig...
Urban parks improve the overall quality of life (QoL) by reducing CO2 emissions, depression, anxiety, and fatigue. Urban green spaces shape our lives by influencing our mental and physical well-being. High-income dwellers of low-density urban areas e...
Sharing economy requires cities to redefine their management strategies. As a consequence of the development of new ideas, the main aim of modern cities should focus on achieving the sustainable use of resources. In the existing literature, only a pa...
The growth of e-commerce has imposed new challenges on urban supply chains, especially in the middle mile, which still lacks structured, sustainable and scalable logistics solutions. This study investigates the feasibility of using the Bus Rapid Tran...
Last-mile logistics is an essential yet highly expensive component of city logistics responsible for many nuisances in urban areas. Mobile access hubs are flexible consolidation and transshipment points aiming at creating more sustainable city logist...
Urban logistics policies have become instrumental in achieving sustainable transport systems. Developing and emerging countries still lag far behind in the implementation of such policies when compared with developed countries. This exposure gap prov...
City logistics is subject to constant development, generated by new logistics trends and high customers’ expectations. With the aim of creating an effective, acceptable, and sustainable city logistics policy, it is therefore essential to unders...
A city as a system that constitutes one of the most important areas of human activities. The significant role to fulfill their expectations pay the goods transport and deliveries. These issues are the subject of urban logistics. In broad terms, urban...
Motivated by the urgent need to discover innovative and sustainable approaches to address the strain on urban resources, this paper introduces a novel concept proposing the utilization of “sleeping assets”. These sleeping assets encompass...
In response to the challenges of urbanization, digitalization, and the e-commerce surge intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, Smart Urban Logistics (SUL) has become a key framework for addressing last-mile delivery issues, congestion, and environment...
Digitalization is transforming urban mobility and logistics, changing behaviors and the way demand is anticipated and managed. This paper frames both research and practice in this area. Through a systematic review of reviews in Scopus and Web of Scie...
The purpose of the article is to identify the conditions for the implementation of deliveries in the Limited Accessibility Zone (LAZ) in Gdansk, based on interviews conducted among suppliers in October 2018. Another goal is to identify guidelines for...
Global warming caused by excessive carbon dioxide emissions is threatening the sustainable development of human society. Considering the upcoming carbon tax policy in China, this paper studies the planning of dual-level urban logistics distribution n...
Environmental sustainability, defined as the responsibility to protect the global ecosystem in a holistic way, has become an integral factor of city strategies. Designing and implementing environment-friendly solutions to make the standard of living...
The tension between city logistics and its impact on sustainable urban development is evident. Often, local environmental decisions overlook the effects on urban freight logistics, lacking consideration for stakeholders. To address this, utilizing mu...
The scale of policies and measures for sustainable urban freight transport in European cities is still insignificant. However, the situation is changing as more and more cities are adopting sustainable urban logistics plans (SULPs). The situation in...
The convergence development of urban–rural logistics is of great significance for narrowing the divide and promoting the exchange between urban and rural areas. The digital economy has emerged as an effective pathway to break down the industria...
Under the advancing urban–rural integration strategy, last-mile logistics, and their spatial accessibility, have become key indicators for measuring regional coordination. Focusing on Guangzhou as the case study area, this study constructs an u...
A Multi-airport Logistics System (MLS) involves the logistics development of multiple airports in an urban agglomeration. Calculating spatial differentiation in MLS and examining its characteristics have theoretical and practical value. Based on MLS,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted critical vulnerabilities in urban logistics systems, particularly in last-mile delivery. To enhance logistics resilience and efficiency, the Korean government has initiated an innovative project that repurposes i...
The main concern in city logistics is the need to optimize the movement of goods in urban contexts, and to minimize the multiple costs inherent in logistics operations. Inspired by an application in a medium-sized city in Latin America, this paper de...
Cities strongly rely on efficient urban logistics to ensure their attractiveness, quality of life, and economic development. In the same time, they strive to ensure livable and safe environments around its road network, where the increased presence o...
This paper presents the results of a study on city logistics in the urban tourist area as a research field. Both disciplines are developing intensively, and the research results have many implications for business practices, in particular for alterna...
Increasing road congestion is the main constraint that may influence the economic development of cities and urban freight transport efficiency because it generates additional costs related to delay, influences social life, increases environmental emi...
The lack of practical application and accurate benefit analysis, which are the prerequisites for each other, make it difficult to implement and promote the underground logistics system (ULS), although in theory people always recognize its advantages...
This study investigates the potential of Autonomous Electric Wagons (AEWs) as an emerging technology for sustainable urban logistics. Because AEWs are still at the pilot-development stage, the objective is to develop a conceptual framework for assess...
The operation of a city’s logistics system is associated with many problematic issues, for example, intense pollution and negative impacts on the environment, uneven intensity of traffic flows, and other problems. This article focuses on heavy...
Tourism plays a crucial role in promoting economic growth, but it can also contribute significantly to environmental degradation, particularly in urban areas where there is a high concentration of local residents and visitors. Tourism is crucial for...
Transport decarbonization and electrification are the current concepts of sustainable logistics. The European Green Deal aims to remove internal combustion engine vehicles from the roads and make the continent climate neutral by 2050. However, there...
The reliability of rescue routes is critical for urban emergency logistics during disasters. However, studies on reliable rescue routing under stochastic networks are still rare. This paper proposes a multiobjective rescue routing model for urban eme...
Rural logistics is particularly important for the sustainable development of Chinese urban agglomeration, which features the coexistence of urban circles and vast countryside. However, the existing literature generally focuses on urban logistics whil...
Urban logistics are facing growing sustainability challenges, particularly in last-mile delivery operations, which contribute significantly to traffic congestion, emissions and operational inefficiencies. The COVID-19 pandemic further exposed the vul...
The growing demand for sustainable urban logistics highlights the need for innovative, low-emission delivery solutions, particularly in the context of small-scale urban food producers. These producers often face logistical challenges in reaching cons...
The development of Latin American cities has been characterised by disorderly expansion. This urbanisation looks set to continue, and, by 2050, there will be a considerable demand for resources, spaces, and food to survive in emerging societies. All...
Background: This paper proposes a conceptual framework for a multifunctional mobility hub (MMH) that co-locates shared e-mobility services, urban logistics, and charging/storage infrastructure within a single site. Aimed at high-density European citi...
Logistics land is the spatial carrier for the development of logistics enterprises. Its evolution mode and driving mechanism determine the level of high-quality development of the logistics industry, and serve as an important basis for urban planning...
Last mile logistics (LML) is the least efficient and complex part of supply chain. The main objective of this study was to identify major challenges of urban freight LML and opportunities for intervention. For this, 42 peer-reviewed full papers publi...
This paper aims to explore the role artificial intelligence (AI) technologies play in optimizing energy consumption levels in urban logistical systems, including the strategic implications of such technologies on smart supply chain management (SCM) i...
Time restriction and logistics sprawl (e.g., relocating logistics facilities), as two popular urban policies, usually affect the urban freight and environmental burden, but their combination might lead to unexpected results. This paper analyzes the i...
Urban low-altitude logistics is increasingly constrained by obstacle-rich city morphology and wind-induced flight disturbances, which makes conventional path-planning methods insufficient for simultaneously ensuring efficiency, feasibility, and robus...
Currently, remarkable gaps of operational, social and environmental efficiency and overall sub-optimization of the logistics and mobility systems exist in urban areas. There is then the need to promote and assess innovative transport solutions and po...
With the rapid development of the low-altitude economy, the intensive take-offs and landings of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) performing logistics transport tasks in urban areas have introduced significant safety risks. To reduce the likelihood of...
The proper vehicle-route selection is a key challenge affecting the quality of urban logistics since any delay may cause disasters. This study proposes a novel approach of using symmetry/asymmetry traffic context data and multi-criteria decision anal...
Background: Peri-urban areas face mobility and logistics challenges, including car dependence, congestion, decarbonisation pressures, fragmented public transport, and growing demand for sustainable goods distribution, yet they remain less systematica...
The application of drones provides a powerful solution for “the last-mile” logistics services, while the large-scale implementation of logistics drone services will threaten the safety of buildings, pedestrians, vehicles, and other elemen...
This systematic review investigates the main mathematical models applied in urban logistics, focusing on routing, location and transshipment problems. The study addresses the growing demand for efficient and sustainable logistics solutions driven by...
The rapid growth of e-commerce has intensified the need for efficient and sustainable last-mile delivery solutions in urban environments. This paper explores the integration of electric vehicles (EVs) and artificial intelligence (AI) into a combined...
Sustainable urban logistics has an important impact on the cities, which emphasizes the need for better management of logistics activities, including the usage of environmentally friendly transportation. The sustainability of cities, a concern that i...
The objective of this paper is to understand the interactions and functioning of the transportation of people and goods in the urban environment, and to propose an evaluation model in terms of sustainability and integrated transportation. Firstly, an...
Simulation-based participatory modelling allows integration of all types of knowledge including empirical, technical and scientific from all disciplines and domains. Thus, in recent years, the use of participatory modelling has been continuously incr...
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