Urban Logistics : Management, Policy and Innovation in a Rapidly Changing Environment

Approximately 80 per cent of European and American citizens live in an urban environment. Due to their large populations and extensive commercial establishments, urban areas require large quantities of goods and services for commercial and domestic use. This results in increasing levels of demand for freight transport services. Freight transport in towns and cities is a major contributor to environmental impacts, particularly to local air pollution and noise. Urban Logistics addresses public policy makers, freight transport companies and receivers of supplies, providing them with the information and guidance to affect change in the logistics of the city.

Urban Logistics is written by an outstanding team of international editors combining their expertise and using their research from leading business schools in Sweden and the US. There are also valuable contributions from academics and industry experts from companies and universities from all over the world. The book includes clear examples of initiatives that work and business case developments, as well as toolkits for policymakers and managers who are devising new initiatives. There is an in-depth examination of different aspects of urban logistics, such as retail logistics for cities, urban food supply chains, services and the special logistics requirements involved, construction, waste management and e-commerce and home delivery. There is also a focus on networks and partnerships and an analysis of innovation as a new constant.

Johan Woxenius is professor of Maritime Transport Management and Logistics at University of Gothenburg since 2008. He received the degrees of M.Sc. (Industrial engineering), PhD and associate professor/docent at Chalmers University of Technology. His main research field is maritime and intermodal freight transport and the research covers sustainability, industrial organisation, production systems, traffic designs and information systems. He has also published articles on urban freight, joint transport of freight and passengers and more fundamental articles on transport detours and global production systems.

He leads University of Gothenburg's part of the maritime research and education programme Lighthouse (www.lighthouse.nu), the logistics research centre Northern LEAD (www.chalmers.se/tme/lead-en) and the Area of Advance Transport (www.chalmers.se/en/areas-of-advance/transport), all run together with Chalmers University of Technology.

Johan Woxenius is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, he is on the scientific advisory board of Volvo Research and Educational Foundations and a member of Schenker Sweden's Strategic Advisory Board. He is associate editor of Transport Reviews and serves in the editorial boards of some other. For the World Conference on Transport Research Society, he leads Topic Area B Freight and is also member of the Scientific Committee.

Johan Woxenius has published in Built Environment, Computers in Industry, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, European Transport - International Journal of Transport Economics, Engineering and Law, Growth & Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, Journal of Shipping and Trade, Journal of Transport Geography, Journal of Transportation Planning and Technology, Logistik-Management, MarIus, Research in Transportation Business & Management,Research in Transportation Economics, Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, Transport, Sustainability, Transport Policy, Transport Reviews, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment and World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research.