Urban freight transport suffers from a significant modelling gap compared to passenger
transport. The target of this paper is to expose one of the first widely operable methods used …

Urban freight consolidation centres are part of the city logistics measures that aim to reduce
the negative impacts related to urban freight transport activities, whilst at the same time …

This paper aims at discussing the effects of the urban growth on freight mobility through the
analysis of urban activities localisation. Thanks to the results of this work, we lay the basics …

Urban consolidation centres (UCCs) are a popular measure in city logistics. Although there
are numerous pilot projects and test cases, many UCCs are granted only a short life …

This study aims at predicting travel pattern changes of freight trucks in the Tokyo
Metropolitan Area by taking full advantage of the latest large-scale urban freight survey. We …

The article presents a method which helps local authorities to evaluate urban freight
transport models. Given the complex requirements for input data and the inability to supply …

This paper describes the survey method built to carry out the UGM survey in the Paris
region. The size of the city, around 12 million inhabitants spread over a territory of 12,000 km …

Large data collection campaigns are difficult to implement in a context of public finance
scarcity. This is even more true for goods movements observation, as public authorities' …

This paper proposes a combination of models to estimate in a mesoscopic and microscopic
way different patterns of urban goods demand according to the area within the city. The two …

E-commerce becomes a major subject of concern for freight operators and public authorities
alike. But we just begin to approach its effect on passenger and freight mobilities. It is …