Urban Logistics Ecosystem: a system of system framework for stakeholders in urban freight transport projects

The City Logistics paradigm for urban freight transport

Freight transport in urban areas is of increasing interest and concern. Significant changes in patterns and intensity of freight movements are occurring as a result of technological and societal change and the growth in e-business, the environmental consequences of road based transport systems, and urban land use and transport systems management policies. One significant problem is the BrowneAl...

Data Flows in Urban Freight Transport Management System

The Transport-ticket System in Brazil for Urban Public Transport

The transport-ticket program was disposed at law in Brazil at end of 1985 but became compulsory for the companies only at the end of 1987.The program appeared to decrease the social tension at big cities caused by the poor functioning of the urban collective transport system, with crowd revolts and depredations. The program intends to facilitate the modernization and maintenance of quality o f ...

Urban Freight Transport Demand Modelling: a State of the Art

The paper provides a review of freight transport demand models for applications in urban and metropolitan areas. The perspective adopted is the short-term one of public decision-makers involved in transport planning and traffic management. The paper recalls the general methodology to be used for assessing the city logistics scenario and the features of models in relation to the planning horizon...

Developing 3 dimensional model for estimation of acoustic power in urban pathways in geo-spatial information system framework

Around the word, traffic growth is causing growing air and noise pollution. Noise levels in a given area are affected by traffic on the streets as well as effective factors, including existing infrastructure and industrial centers, and so on. The purpose of this research is to model and estimate the amount of acoustic emission in the streets of Tehran's third district, using the 3D spatial info...