 The retailer perspective on the potential for using urban consolidation centres (UCCs)Emine Zehra Akgün, Jason Monios, Jonathan Cowie and Achille Fonzone Research in Transportation Economics, 2024, vol. 103, issue C Abstract: This paper examines the role of supportive policies and value-added services which may incentivise retailers to use an urban consolidation centre (UCC). The methodology is a case study of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, based on semi-structured interviews with 30 retailers. Results show that retailers are generally not positive towards using UCCs, and the services that they need are already being provided by their existing logistics service providers (LSPs). Nevertheless, if they were forced by restrictions and rising costs to use a UCC, they would be prepared to do so. In that case, they would want those services currently provided by LSPs to be provided by the UCC and would be prepared to pay for them. For a successful transfer to a UCC model, the retailer, LSP and UCC would need to work together to avoid loss of revenue to the LSP. Keywords: Retailers; Urban freight transport (UFT); Urban logistics; Transport policy; Urban consolidation centre (UCC); Logistics service provider (LSP) (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:retrec:v:103:y:2024:i:c:s0739885924000088 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2024.101413 Access Statistics for this article Research in Transportation Economics is currently edited by M. Dresner More articles in Research in Transportation Economics from Elsevier |
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