Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning

Auteur
Jose Holguin-Veras is William H. Hart Professor and Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment at Rensseelaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2013 White House's Transportation Champion of Change Award, the 1996 Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award, among others. His research interests are in the areas of freight transportation policy, modelling, and economics, and disaster response logistics. His research has led to major changes in transportation policy to improve urban freight systems. He is President of the Pan-American Society of Transportation Research, and Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part A, Transportation Editor of Networks and Spatial Economics, and member of the editorial boards of leading journals. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1996; a M.Sc. from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1984; and a B.Sc. from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in 1982. Ivan Sanchez-Diaz is Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, where he is the co-director of the Urban Freight Platform (UFP) funded by VREF. As part of the UFP, Ivan and his research team conduct research on sustainable urban freight and coorganize the VREF Conference on Urban Freight. Ivan is the Committee Research Coordinator of the Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation (AT025) from the US Transportation Research Board and is part of the editorial board of ETRR and WRITR journals. His research has been published in the most prestigious transportation journals, and he has been awarded with the best paper award from AT025. Ivan received his B.S. in Civil Engineering with the highest honors from the Universidad del Norte (Colombia); and received his M.Sc. and PhD in Transportation Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York).

Texte du rabat
Urban Freight Transportation Management and Planning: Practice and Theory provides the reader with a solid understanding of the role of urban freight activity on metropolitan economies, the externalities produced by freight activity, and effective public sector initiatives to mitigate or eliminate altogether negative externalities. This book addresses key topics related to urban freight and solutions for key challenges from a practitioner perspective.

The authors 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). They also discuss simplified techniques to model and understand freight activity to support decision-making, and they incorporate key elements of sustainability and technology in different sections to provide an up-to-date view on how these relevant topics affect and are affected by urban freight.

This book is a valuable resource for practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students interested in gaining a thorough understanding of the realities of urban freight systems, supply chains, and urban freight management, policy, and planning.

Contenu

PART A: URBAN ECONOMIES, SUPPLY CHAINS1. Basic micro-economic principles2. Urban Economies and the Role of Freight Activity and Supply Chains3. The Physical Production and Distribution System

PART B: URBAN FREIGHT MANAGEMENT AND POLICY4. Urban Freight Management and Policy5. Freight Demand Modelling for Short-Term Urban Freight Management6. Selection of Initiatives for Short-Term Urban Freight Management7. Evaluation and Follow-Up

PART C: URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION PLANNING 8. Strategic Freight Demand Modeling for Long-Term Planning and Policy8. Policy and Planning for Long-Term Freight Efficient Land Uses10. Evaluation and Follow-Up