50th anniversary invited article—city logistics: Challenges and opportunities

M Savelsbergh, T Van Woensel - Transportation science, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
Today, around 54% of the world's population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this share is
expected to go up significantly. As a result, city logistics, which focuses on the efficient and …

Collaborative urban transportation: Recent advances in theory and practice

C Cleophas, C Cottrill, JF Ehmke, K Tierney - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Increasing urbanization has turned transporting freight from, to, and within urban areas into
a major challenge. Freight transportation represents a lifeline for urban retail and industry …

Collaborative vehicle routing: A survey

M Gansterer, RF Hartl - European Journal of Operational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
In horizontal collaborations, carriers form coalitions in order to perform parts of their logistics
operations jointly. By exchanging transportation requests among each other, they can …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic literature review on collaborative sustainable transportation: overview, analysis and perspectives

A Aloui, N Hamani, R Derrouiche… - Transportation Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the last few years, competitiveness, problems of globalization and concerns about
sustainability require new approaches and models for the planning of transport networks …

Horizontal collaborative transport: survey of solutions and practical implementation issues

S Pan, D Trentesaux, E Ballot… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Horizontal collaboration has been considered as effective practice for sustainable logistics
and freight transport and it has gained increased attention in recent years. This paper aims …

Horizontal collaboration: opportunities for improved logistics planning

W Ferrell, K Ellis, P Kaminsky… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The logistics industry is a critical economic component in most countries and has a
significant impact on their citizens' quality of life. In the US, 48 million tons of freight valued at …

[HTML][HTML] The collaborative consistent vehicle routing problem with workload balance

S Mancini, M Gansterer, RF Hartl - European journal of operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
The rising competition in the logistics sector forces companies to be more economically
efficient. One of the major sources of inefficiency is the incomplete usage of available …

Freight transportation service procurement: A literature review and future research opportunities in omnichannel E-commerce

M Lafkihi, S Pan, E Ballot - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper provides a literature review of freight transportation service procurement and
investigates the challenges and opportunities regarding transportation organization and …

On the impact of collaborative strategies for goods delivery in city logistics

JR Montoya-Torres, A Muñoz-Villamizar… - … Planning & Control, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
City logistics refers to the process of total optimisation of the logistics and transport activities
in urban areas while considering economic, environmental, social and safety aspects. This …

Analysis of the barriers to implementing horizontal collaborative transport using a hybrid fuzzy Delphi-AHP approach

A Karam, M Hussein, KH Reinau - Journal of cleaner production, 2021 - Elsevier
With increasing market competition and environmental awareness, the freight transport
industry has become under ever-increasing pressure to achieve better sustainability …