City Logistics Behavioral Models and Urban Impact Measures for Sustainable Freight Transport: Exploring Stakeholder Behavioral Choice Processes offers a thorough understanding of urban freight movements, focusing on behavioral aspects of consumers. It outlines the role of modelling the behavioral aspects of people determining urban freight movements, mapping the behavior of the end consumer and the retailer which generates freight movements in an urban context. It provides new methods of urban freight transport simulation, taking into account the challenges of sustainable development goals, and uses the most recent approaches in modelling for city logistics scenario design and planning. It also outlines the relationships between measures and main components (expressed by indicators) of sustainable development. This book guides readers in implementing the most effective city logistics measures and actions, addressing the choice of a set of measures and the definition of planning scenarios. Readers are introduced to simulation methods for estimating impacts and system performance, which can be used for comparing the future scenario outcomes according to the set of target indicators defined by Agenda 2030. The book first specifies end consumer behaviors in purchasing processes, analyzing the individual phases of the purchase. The retailer’s behaviors are then specified, and after specifying the patterns of the decision makers, the quantities of goods that constitute the references for the choices of the decision makers are analyzed. Finally, the book presents the problems whose solution makes it possible to identify the vehicles of the various types and then the flows on the network. The overall structure of the model system and the specification of each single model are then given. Some models calibrated in different real cases are presented, highlighting their applicability to other contexts. Finally, implementable measures are presented and the relationships between measures and main components (expressed by indicators) of sustainable development are examined. Transport technicians, post-graduate students, and academics alike will find this a valuable resource for understanding how to incorporate user behavior into transport planning and logistics modeling, ultimately helping them to optimize processes and promote sustainability.
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1. Introduction
2. Behavioural aspects of urban freight movements
3. System of specified models
4. Calibration and validation of the system of models
5. Urban freight transport impacts and policies
6. Bibliographic notes
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An up-to-date guide to understanding urban freight movements, focusing on behavioral aspects of consumers
• Explains end-consumers and restocking choice modelling for supporting ex-ante and ex-post assessment of cities in relation to freight transport and logistics to the sustainable goals to pursue as defined by the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 • Utilizes state-of-the-art research and new research challenges addressed by sustainability • Provides tools for suggesting the best roadmap for improving city sustainability
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780443331329
Publisert
2025-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
213
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