Urban Freight Fleet Composition Problem

The Impact of Location, Fleet Composition and Routing on Emissions in Urban Freight Distribution

Continuous Approximation Models for the Fleet Replacement and Composition Problem

Towards an European Freight and Fleet Management Architecture Standard

Based upon experience of the Transport Telematics EU research programme, work in the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) in Technical Committee TC 278/WG2 has resulted in a common Architecture Reference Model, a Refined Architecture Model and definitions of terms for Freight and Fleet Management Systems(FFMS) information applications; intermodality has been taken into account. This art...

Chaos in urban freight policies

As mentioned in the European white paper of the OECD (OECD, 2003) the main policy objective to be tackled is the development of sustainable urban goods transport. Sustainable urban goods transport should facilitate a continuing economic growth and meanwhile protecting the environment and ensuring a better quality of life for future generations. In Netherlands various regulations have been imple...

Optimizing Urban Freight Deliveries: from Designing

In this article, we present efforts towards building a city-wide freight delivery rounds optimization system aimed at leveraging city traffic information to optimize professional vehicle rounds. This project, called SmartDeliveries, has been developed as part of the OptimodLyon project. We present the system’s architecture and general objective. Then we present early evaluations which have led ...