Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning: Practice and Theory

Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning: Practice and Theory provides the reader with a solid understanding of the role of urban freight activity on metropolitan economies, the externalities produced by freight activity, and effective public sector initiatives to mitigate or eliminate altogether negative externalities. This book addresses key topics related to urban freight and solutions for key challenges from a practitioner perspective. The authors 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). They also discuss simplified techniques to model and understand freight activity to support decision-making, and they incorporate key elements of sustainability and technology in different sections to provide an up-to-date view on how these relevant topics affect and are affected by urban freight. This book is a valuable resource for practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students interested in gaining a thorough understanding of the realities of urban freight systems, supply chains, and urban freight management, policy, and planning. Presents practical solutions and state-of-the-art tools so to effectively address the main freight issues of concernContains an overview of both short- and long-term existing freight initiatives-projects, programs, and policies-that have been solidly characterized in terms of their expected performanceUses a multi-disciplinary orientation based on well-grounded on proven theories and methodologies of transportation and traffic engineering, micro-economics, supply chain management, and urban planning INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-323-95128-9
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 325
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2025
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés