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Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning: Practice and Theory provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of urban freight activity's role in metropolitan economies, its externalities, and public sector initiatives to mitigate negative impacts. This book addresses critical issues in urban freight and offers practical solutions from a practitioner's perspective. The authors deliver key and easily digestible information on topics such as local economies, supply chains, freight activity, and technical procedures for estimating freight generation. Sections offer details on initiatives addressing freight issues, urban freight management, and planning processes, incorporating sustainability and technology to present a contemporary view of the field.
Chapters systematically and pedagogically provide key and easy-to-digest information on a range of topics, including local economies and the role of supply chains and freight activity; technical procedures to estimate freight generation and freight trip generation; technical details about the wide range of initiatives that could address freight issues; and effective urban freight management and planning process (including both transportation and land-use).
Contents
PART A: URBAN ECONOMIES, SUPPLY CHAINS
1. Basic micro-economic principles
2. Urban Economies and the Role of Freight Activity and Supply Chains
3. The Physical Production and Distribution System
PART B: URBAN FREIGHT MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
4. Urban Freight Management and Policy
5. Freight Demand Modelling for Short-Term Urban Freight Management
6. Selection of Initiatives for Short-Term Urban Freight Management
7. Evaluation and Follow-Up
PART C: URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
8. Strategic Freight Demand Modeling for Long-Term Planning and Policy
9. Policy and Planning for Long-Term Freight Efficient Land Uses
10. Evaluation and Follow-Up
