December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 9m
English
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Chapter 11
Future Perspectives on
Urban Freight Transport
Eiichi Taniguchi and Russell G. Thompson
11.1 CHALLENGES OF URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORT
There are growing concerns about environmental issues relating to
urban freight transport due to rising levels of congestion caused by the
increasing number of passenger and freight vehicles operating in urban
areas. The concentration of people in urban areas in many countries of
the world has accelerated this tendency.
Discussion relating to the sustainable development of urban areas as
well as mobility of goods has led to more attention to coordinate both
trafc and logistics problems. There is an ur ...