Urban freight transport planning towards green goals: Synthetic environmental evidence from tested results

F Russo, A Comi - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the ex-post assessment of city logistics measures implemented in some
European cities and, in a “what if” framework, proposes an analysis of tested environmental …

Sustainability-based review of urban freight models

ME Nenni, A Sforza, C Sterle - Soft Computing, 2019 - Springer
This paper provides a review of models and decision support systems for urban freight
transport (UFT). The originality of this study is that the analysis framework has been …

The environmental social cost of urban road freight: Evidence from the Paris region

N Coulombel, L Dablanc, M Gardrat… - … Research Part D …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the environmental impact of urban road freight in the Paris region,
focusing on pollutant emissions. We develop a modeling chain including a freight demand …

A spatio-functional logistics profile clustering analysis method for metropolitan areas

A Regal, J Gonzalez-Feliu, M Rodriguez - Transportation Research Part E …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a framework to define a zoning procedure using clustering taking into
account socio-economic, spatial and logistics intensity variables to support urban logistics …

Urban freight demand forecasting: a mixed quantity/delivery/vehicle-based model

A Nuzzolo, A Comi - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The research germinates from the statement that the cities have to solve the impacts due to
freight transport in order to improve their sustainability implementing sets of city logistics …

Smart urban freight transport: tools for planning and optimising delivery operations

A Comi, MM Schiraldi, B Buttarazzi - Simulation Modelling Practice and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Delivery bay availability for loading and unloading operations is critical to reduce times and
costs of logistics operations, as well as for improving city sustainability and liveability …

Route and path choices of freight vehicles: A case study with floating car data

AI Croce, G Musolino, C Rindone, A Vitetta - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
According to the literature, the path choice decision process of a user of a (road) transport
network, named path choice problem (PCP), is composed of two levels/models: the …

Estimation of travel demand models with limited information: Floating car data for parameters' calibration

AI Croce, G Musolino, C Rindone, A Vitetta - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper attempts to integrate data from models, traditional surveys and big data in a
situation of limited information. The goal is to increase the capacity of transport planners to …

Culture counts: Implications of consumer preferences for more sustainable ecommerce fulfillment

A Creazza, LM Ellram, C Colicchia - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecommerce has grown rapidly over the last few years, providing a variety of fulfillment
options with various levels of harm to the environment. To inform companies' strategies, this …

A modelling framework to forecast urban goods flows

A Comi - Research in Transportation Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
After investigating the suitability of using assessment procedures which include goods
demand models, this paper examines the activities and decision makers involved in urban …