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Authors: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue & Dr. Laetitia Dablanc Urban areas have a diversity of freight profiles in terms of the freight they generate and how it circulates. 1. Logistics and the Global Urban Landscape Urban economies are evolving rapidly towards a higher level of material intensiveness as global incomes are rising. Moving

Authors: Dr. Laetitia Dablanc and Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue The emergence of e-commerce has driven a new impetus for city logistics with the fast growth in home deliveries and the related flows of parcels. These delivery services were further expanded to include fast deliveries involving selected items and food. 1. The Rise

Urban passenger and freight transport systems are separate systems sharing similar infrastructure, but impacted differently by density. The common perspective in urban planning is that higher densities are preferable since they generate economies for services and opportunities in the use of public transit. However, high concentration levels generate conflicts between

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

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.

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

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue The digitalization of mobility involves a modification, a substitution, or a generation of a movement. It is contingent upon the socioeconomic and geographical context in which mobility occurs. 1. Transport Substitution The rapid proliferation of ICT, such as mobile phones, intranets, and teleconferencing, promotes new forms

Source: IEA (2019). Transportation modes have a variety of environmental performance that can be measured in terms of CO2 emissions by unit traveled. For passengers, it involves grams of CO2 per passenger-kilometer, and for freight, it involves grams of CO2 per ton-km. Massification (economies of scale) is a key element

Source: Adapted from International Transport Forum (2020) Transport Climate Action Directory, Paris: OECD. The decarbonization of transportation involves multiple approaches that try to influence its economics, the infrastructure, regulatory environment, or innovative practices leaning on information technologies. The main goals seek: A decline in the total number of movements of

The construction, maintenance, and operation of transportation infrastructures are subject to five major types of constraints.