The future of city logistics. Trends and developments leading towards a smart and zero emission system
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The city logistics system faces serious challenges for the near future. Authorities aim for zero emission logistics in city centers and the logistics’ carbon footprint should decrease tremendously in order to meet the Paris agreement to address climate change to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees by 2100 [UFC 17, TOP 16]. Besides, due to the increasing urban density and road users competing for scarce space an efficient city logistics system is required to keep cities manageable in the more and more urbanized world [QUA 08]. This implies that the city logistics system has to change, but experiences from the previous decades show that the urban freight transport system turns out to be very difficult to change and modernize [DAB 07]. The system is very heterogeneous with respect to various product-market segments, the logistic requirements, its organization and number of different stakeholders playing their role. Sometimes these logistics operations have only in common that it concerns the movement of goods from, to or in a city [ALL 10].
TNO Identifier
867889
Source title
City Logistics 1: New Opportunities and Challenges
Pages
125-146
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