A Collaborative Stakeholder Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Urban Logistics

Ivana Semanjski and Sidharta Gautama
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Ivana Semanjski: Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design, Ghent University, Technologiepark 903, 9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
Sidharta Gautama: Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design, Ghent University, Technologiepark 903, 9052 Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: 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 of light and heavy goods vehicles raises questions of regarding safety and environmental impacts. Recent literature has well-recognized the need to consider different stakeholders’ perspectives on these issues, in order to achieve desired outcomes. In this paper, we introduce a collaborative stakeholders’ decision-making approach for sustainable urban logistics, and demonstrate its applicability on a real-life example. The suggested approach extends existing route planning approaches by considering route sustainability as a part of an arc’s traversal cost. The integration of route sustainability is based on the adoption of a multi-criterial decision-making approach, with the possibility of including different stakeholders’ points of view, and evaluating the sustainability cost concerning the route’s spatial context. To demonstrate the applicability of the suggested approach, we extract the route sustainability cost from the traffic sign database, and implement the findings on a real-life example. Furthermore, the suggested approach exhibits a high level of transferability to various local contexts, where local stakeholders might have a different view on the route sustainability than is the case in our example.

Keywords: Multiple Criteria Decision Making; urban logistics; sustainable transportation; citizens initiatives; participatory decision making; urban transportation; transport policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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