Costs and benefits of logistics pooling for urban freight distribution: scenario simulation and assessment for strategic decision support

Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu ()

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Abstract: Collaborative transportation and logistics pooling are relatively new concepts in research, but are very popular in practice. In the last years, collaborative transportation seems a good city logistics alternative to classical urban consolidation centres, but it is still in a development stage. This paper proposes a framework for urban logistics pooling ex-ante evaluation. This framework is developed with two purposes. The first is to generate comparable contrasted or progressive scenarios representing realistic situations; the second to simulate and assess them to make a "before-after" comparative analysis. In this framework, a demand generation model is combined with a route optimization algorithm to simulate the resulting routes of the proposed individual or collaborative distribution schemes assumed by each scenario. Then, several indicators can be obtained, mainly travelled distances, working times, road occupancy rates and operational monetary costs. To illustrate that framework, several scenarios for the urban area of Lyon (France) are simulated and discussed to illustrate the proposed framework possible applications.

Keywords: urban logistics; resource sharing; freight transport pooling; policy-oriented modelling; simulation-based comparative analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-11-09
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Published in Seminario CREI, Nov 2011, Rome, Italy

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