Urban Transportation and Logistics

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Preface

Urban transport and logistics systems play a very important role in

human security engineering since they provide basic components for

ensuring the safety and security of human life in urban areas. Most of the

activities of people in business and leisure depend greatly on the services

of urban transport and logistics systems. However, we face difcult

and complicated problems of efciency, environment, energy consump-

tion, safety relating to urban transport, and logistics in normal cases

as well as in disasters. Therefore, understanding the problems, nding

approaches and solutions, implementing them, and evaluating results are

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