Models for Evaluating and Planning City Logistics Systems

Authors:
Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Nicoletta Ricciardi;Giovanni Storchi
Affiliations:
Dépt de Management et Technologie, École des Sciences de la Gestion, and Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), Univ. du Qué ...;Dipartimento di Statistica, Probabilità e Statistiche Applicate, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy;Dipartimento di Statistica, Probabilità e Statistiche Applicate, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
Venue:
Transportation Science
Year:
2009

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Abstract

City logistics aims to reduce the nuisances associated to freight transportation in urban areas while supporting their economic and social development. The fundamental idea is to view individual stakeholders and decisions as components of an integrated logistics system. This implies the coordination of shippers, carriers, and movements as well as the consolidation of loads of several customers and carriers into the same environment-friendly vehicles. City logistics explicitly aims to optimize such advanced urban transportation systems. We focus on a challenging city logistics planning issue, the integrated short-term scheduling of operations and management of resources, for the general case involving a two-tiered distribution structure. We investigate the main issues related to the problem, introduce a new problem class, propose both a general model and formulations for the main system components, and identify promising solution avenues.