City Logistics: Modelling, planning and evaluation

This volume on city logistics presents recent advances of modelling urban freight transport as well as planning and evaluating city logistics policy measures in the academic research areas and practices. The contributions of eleven chapters have come from eight countries, including Japan, UK, The Netherlands, Italy, France, Singapore, Indonesia, and Brazil. As city logistics aims at creating efficient and environmental-friendly urban freight transport systems, these chapters deal with challenging urban freight transport problems from various point of views of the usage of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems), multi-agent modelling, public–private partnerships, and the disaster consideration.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sciences.

Eiichi Taniguchi is Professor of Transport and Logistics in Department of Urban Management, Kyoto University. His research centres on City Logistics and urban freight modelling. He developed vehicle routing and scheduling with time windows models and multi-agent models for evaluating city logistics policy measures.