Abstract
Cities strongly rely on efficient urban logistics to ensure their attractiveness, quality of life, and economic development. In the same time, they strive to ensure livable and safe environments around its road network, where the increased presence of light and heavy goods vehicles raises questions of regarding safety and environmental impacts. Recent literature has well-recognized the need to consider different stakeholders’ perspectives on these issues, in order to achieve desired outcomes. In this paper, we introduce a collaborative stakeholders’ decision-making approach for sustainable urban logistics, and demonstrate its applicability on a real-life example. The suggested approach extends existing route planning approaches by considering route sustainability as a part of an arc’s traversal cost. The integration of route sustainability is based on the adoption of a multi-criterial decision-making approach, with the possibility of including different stakeholders’ points of view, and evaluating the sustainability cost concerning the route’s spatial context. To demonstrate the applicability of the suggested approach, we extract the route sustainability cost from the traffic sign database, and implement the findings on a real-life example. Furthermore, the suggested approach exhibits a high level of transferability to various local contexts, where local stakeholders might have a different view on the route sustainability than is the case in our example.
Highlights
In 2008, for the first time, the population in urban areas worldwide outgrew the population in rural areas
The suggested approach exhibits a high level of transferability to various local contexts, where local stakeholders might have a different view on the route sustainability than is the case in our example
Castillo-Manzano et al [9] investigated the relationship between truck load capacity and traffic accidents in the European Union, and highlight that light goods trucks are the worst performers in terms of traffic accidents, and they are often used for city logistics purposes
Summary
In 2008, for the first time, the population in urban areas worldwide outgrew the population in rural areas. They aimed at identifying and modelling conditions under which it is optimal to wait idly at certain locations in order to avoid congestion, and to reduce the cost of emissions All of these issues are relevant, and should be included in route planning; so far they are mainly considered separately, and with the limited possibility to integrate, often conflicting, point of views of different stakeholders. The contribution of this paper can be stated as follows: (i) we extend existing routing approaches with the possibility to integrate different perspectives of stakeholders, which makes it applicable for urban logistics purposes; (ii) we demonstrate how both qualitative and quantitative elements can be integrated into route planning in a real-life example; (iii) we develop an transferable and adjustable way to integrate sustainable routing in different local environments with respect to the local context and preferences of the local stakeholders; (iv) we demonstrate how new technologies, including the traffic sign database, can be used to extract sustainability insight from the information content that they possess
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