GenCLOn: An ontology for city logistics

  • Authors:

  • Nilesh Anand;Mengchang Yang;J. H. R. Van Duin;Lori Tavasszy

  • Affiliations:

  • Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX Delft, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

City logistics is a discipline specialized to cope with the sustainability problems encountered in urban freight transport. A key characteristic of it is the heterogeneity of the stakeholders involved. Besides the traditional logistics actors such as shippers, carriers and receivers that share consistent interests (i.e. price and quality), city logistics highly respect the interests of public administrators and citizens that care more about the social welfare. To reach an optimal balance between private and public benefit, it is necessary to understand and in turn forecast the behavior pattern of different groups. In recent years, agent-based modeling has been practiced as an unconventional tool to fulfill this task for its strong capability on capturing the dynamic behavior of individual stakeholders and their interconnections. Referring to other domains (e.g. energy system) where the application of agent-based modeling is relatively mature, a following urgency is to achieve interoperability and in turn reusability between models via introducing formal ontology as a shared template with which developers can standardize their models. This paper introduces an initiative of developing an ontology that formalizes the domain knowledge of city logistics.