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Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition. Between 1950 and 2015, the global urban population tripled to 3.9 billion. While urbanization has considerably slowed down in developed economies, the developing world is where cities are growing the

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue The most important transport challenges occur when urban transport systems cannot adequately satisfy the requirements of urban mobility. 1. Urban Transportation at the Crossroads Cities are locations having a high level of accumulation and concentration of economic activities. They are complex spatial structures supported by infrastructures,

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue Urban mobility involves three broad categories of collective, individual, and freight transportation. While the mobility of passengers is the outcome of individual decisions based on different rationales, freight mobility is decided in tandem between the cargo owners and transportation service providers. 1. Urban Mobility and its

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue Urban land use reflects the location and level of spatial accumulation of activities such as retailing, management, manufacturing, or residence. They generate flows supported by transport systems. 1. The Land Use – Transport System Urban areas are characterized by social, cultural, and economic activities taking place

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue Transportation has an influence on the urban spatial structure and is shaping urbanization. 1. Global Urbanization Urbanization. The transition from a rural to an urban society. Statistically, urbanization reflects an increasing proportion of the population living in settlements defined as urban, primarily through net rural to

Photo: Dr. Laetitia Dablanc, 2014, USC/Metrofreight visit to Skechers DC, July 2014. Skechers is an American shoe designer and distributor headquartered in California. In 2012, it opened a new distribution center in Moreno Valley, about 100 km from Los Angeles and close to interstate I-215, which connects to I-15, the

Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2006. The UPS Chicago Area Consolidation Hub, which opened in 1995, is the largest land transport distribution center in the United States and the largest package sorting facility in the world. It acts as a large cross-docking facility, sorting about 1.3 million parcels per day, which

Freight distribution can be represented as a flow chain supported by a transport chain. The flow chain is illustrative of the frequency and unit volume of each segment, from maritime shipping (high volume, low frequency) to local deliveries (low volume, high frequency). Long-distance transportation tends to be well serviced by

Source: adapted from Arvis, J-F, G. Raballand, and J-F Marteau (2007) The cost of being landlocked: logistics costs and supply chain reliability, Policy Research Working Paper 4258. World Bank, Washington, D.C. World Bank (2007) Connecting to Compete: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy. The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators.