Is urban logistics pooling viable? A multistakeholder multicriteria analysis

Is urban logistics pooling viable? A multistakeholder multicriteria analysis

[SHS:GESTION] Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration

urban logistics

resource sharing

freight transport pooling

collaborative multicriteria analysis

Collaborative transportation and logistics pooling are relatively new concepts in research, but are very popular in practice. In the last years, collaborative transportation seems a good city logistics alternative to classical urban consolidation centres, but it is still in a development stage. This paper proposes a framework for urban logistics pooling ex-ante evaluation. This framework is developed with two purposes. The first is to generate comparable contrasted or progressive scenarios representing realistic situations; the second to simulate and assess them to make a "before-after" comparative analysis. In this framework, a demand generation model is combined with a route optimization algorithm to simulate the resulting routes of the proposed individual or collaborative distribution schemes assumed by each scenario. Then, several indicators can be obtained, mainly travelled distances, working times, road occupancy rates and operational monetary costs. To illustrate that framework, several scenarios for the urban area of Lyon (France) are simulated and discussed to illustrate the proposed framework possible applications.

Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus

Salanova Grau, Josep-Maria

Actas del V Congreso Internacional de Transporte

V Congreso Internacional de Transporte. La nueva ordenación del mercado de transporte

2012-10-24

ENG

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00750752

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/75/07/52/PDF/JesA_s_GonzA_lez-Feliu.pdf

Spain