| Title | Flow management of passengers and goods coexisting in the urban environment: Conceptual and operational points of view |
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| ID_Doc | 66572 |
| Authors | Trentini, A; Malhene, N |
| Title | Flow management of passengers and goods coexisting in the urban environment: Conceptual and operational points of view |
| Year | 2012 |
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| Abstract | Our research aims to define a model which constitutes a first framework to plan and to control both passengers and goods flows in the urban environment. It focuses on the sharing concept which means to make a joint use of transport resources between passengers and goods flows. The proposed concept leans on the statement that: "There is sufficient overlap between passenger & freight urban transport systems to be able to build on and integrate existing infrastructure of both passenger & freight systems" [1]. Consequently, to integrate passenger & freight flows in the existing urban transport systems, it is necessary to characterize this overlap, which means to quantify both flows. Starting from freight flows, our paper presents a methodology aiming to define an appropriate sizing of delivery volumes by business type. The methodology has been implemented in a French medium sized city: La Rochelle. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 7th International Conference on on City Logistics |
| https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.149 |
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