Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning

Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning: Practice and Theory provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of urban freight activity's role in metropolitan economies, its externalities, and public sector initiatives to mitigate negative impacts. This book addresses critical issues in urban freight and offers practical solutions from a practitioner's perspective. The authors deliver key and easily digestible information on topics such as local economies, supply chains, freight activity, and technical procedures for estimating freight generation. Sections offer details on initiatives addressing freight issues, urban freight management, and planning processes, incorporating sustainability and technology to present a contemporary view of the field.

Chapters systematically and pedagogically provide key and easy-to-digest information on a range of topics, including local economies and the role of supply chains and freight activity; technical procedures to estimate freight generation and freight trip generation; technical details about the wide range of initiatives that could address freight issues; and effective urban freight management and planning process (including both transportation and land-use).

• Presents practical solutions and state-of-the-art tools to effectively address the main freight issues of concern
• Contains an overview of both short- and long-term existing freight initiatives-projects, programs, and policies-that have been solidly characterized in terms of their expected performance
• Uses a multi-disciplinary orientation based on well-grounded, proven theories and methodologies of transportation and traffic engineering, micro-economics, supply chain management, and urban planning