A number of criteria can be used to classify the urban context as well as city logistics:
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Main Driving Factors for City Logistics
The Spatial and Functional Structure of Urban Logistics
A city has a spatial and functional structure impacting the organization of activities, transport infrastructures, and freight distribution. The spatial structure is reflective of the distribution and the density of urban activities and it is usually divided into areas such as the central business district, the urban core, suburbia, and
City Functions and Urban Distribution
The city is jointly a place of production, distribution, and consumption of material goods and will thus generate material flows. The role and extent of these functions vary according to the historical and socioeconomic context of each city, commonly involving a specialization (e.g. financial cities, manufacturing cities). Globalization has changed
Conceptual Differences between Supply Chain Management and City Logistics
Although supply chain management and city logistics can be confused, they relate to different issues and approaches. Supply chain management (SCM) is concerned with the organization of supply chains to reach goals. At the same time, city logistics seeks to regulate freight distribution activities (which are the outcome of SCM)
Core Relations Between Freight and Urban Areas
Two relations are at the core of freight distribution and urban areas; the land and distribution dynamics:
C.1 – What is City Logistics?
Authors: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Dr. Laetitia Dablanc City logistics is the means enabling freight distribution in urban areas and the strategies that can improve its efficiency while mitigating externalities such as congestion and emissions. It involves managing the movement of urban goods and providing innovative responses to customer demands.
Domains of Maritime Circulation (update)
Since this is the season of constrained bottlenecks/chokepoints (Panama and Bab el-Mandeb), the map aggregating commercial shipping density has been updated with a dataset covering a large sample of ship moves between 2015 and 2021. The shipping density and maritime routes remained similar through the years. The notable exception is
Continue readingThe Geography of Transport Systems (3rd Edition)
The third edition was published in 2013, and the current edition is the fifth (the sixth to be released in April 2024).
Appendix C – City Logistics
City logistics involves freight distribution in urban areas as well as strategies that can improve its overall efficiency while mitigating congestion and environmental externalities. It includes providing services that manage the movements of goods in cities and provide innovative responses to customer demands. City logistics has received growing attention in light of