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City Logistics

Eiichi TANIGUCHI

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This paper proposes an idea of city logistics for optimising urban freight transport by takinginto account the environment, the congestion and energy consumption. The basic concepts of city logistics as well as some measures of city logistics with examples are presented. The paper also describes modelling the vehicle routing and scheduling of pickup/delivery trucks and the optimal location of logistics terminals for evaluating the city logistics schemes. Moreover, the future perspectives concerning urban freight transport planning are presented.

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Key concepts: City logistics, Traffic management, Truck, Transport engineering, Scheduling (production processes), Humanitarian Logistics, Energy consumption, Vehicle routing problem