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Title Collaborative urban transportation: Recent advances in theory and practice
ID_Doc 68777
Authors Cleophas, C; Cottrill, C; Ehmke, JF; Tierney, K
Title Collaborative urban transportation: Recent advances in theory and practice
Year 2019
Published European Journal Of Operational Research, 273, 3
DOI 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.04.037
Abstract Increasing urbanization has turned transporting freight from, to, and within urban areas into a major challenge. Freight transportation represents a lifeline for urban retail and industry, but causes significant negative impacts on the quality of living in urban areas in terms of congestion, emissions and space consumption. City logistics initiatives have long suggested the need for collaborative and environmentally friendly urban transportation that could alleviate the negative impacts of urban transportation, but these face organizational and technological challenges of collaboration. Given technological advancements and innovative business models, concepts of collaborative urban transportation could contribute to a future paradigm of more sustainable and customer-friendly urban transportation. In this work, we collect and discuss contributions to collaborative freight transportation in urban areas with focus on recent publications (i.e. those published over the past ten years). We particularly analyze vertical and horizontal approaches of collaboration from an operations research perspective and point out strategic, tactical, and operational planning problems and solution approaches. To highlight research gaps and future research opportunities, we present innovative examples of collaborative urban transportation and analyze factors of failure and success. Collecting recent advances in theory and practice of collaborative urban transportation allows us to distill alternative visions of future collaborative freight transportation in urban areas. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Author Keywords Urban logistics; Collaborative transportation; Review; Collaboration
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000455069000001
WoS Category Management; Operations Research & Management Science
Research Area Business & Economics; Operations Research & Management Science
PDF https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14161/1/Collaborative_Urban_Transportation.pdf
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