Abstract
The paper deals with economic effects due to city logistics implementations. An analysis framework is proposed and the results of a survey, consisting of interviews with experts in city logistics, are presented. The survey was carried out to point out the level of benefits or costs expected by city logistics measure implementation. The results show that city users are expected to receive more benefits from environment-friendly vehicle measures, while transport and logistics operators can averagely obtain considerable benefits from demand management and public–private collaboration solutions.
Highlights
Urban freight transport plays an essential role in meeting the needs of citizens, it significantly contributes to non-sustainable effects on the environment, economy, and society
Even if several studies have investigated the environmental issues arising from urban freight transport (e.g., Baumgartner et al [27], Dablanc and Montenon [28], Hwang and Ouyang [29], Leonardi and Baumgartner [30], McKinnon et al [31], Rizet et al [32], Waygood et al [10]), they have mainly referred to CO2 emissions on the part of operators, while only a few of them identified the visions of city planners or administrators (Marcucci et al [33], McKinnon [5])
These objectives can be achieved by implementing different theoretical classes of city logistics measures, which can be organized in the following manner (Russo and Comi [34]):
Summary
Urban freight transport plays an essential role in meeting the needs of citizens, it significantly contributes to non-sustainable effects on the environment, economy, and society. Even if several studies have investigated the environmental issues arising from urban freight transport (e.g., Baumgartner et al [27], Dablanc and Montenon [28], Hwang and Ouyang [29], Leonardi and Baumgartner [30], McKinnon et al [31], Rizet et al [32], Waygood et al [10]), they have mainly referred to CO2 emissions on the part of operators (e.g., shippers, transporters, consumers), while only a few of them identified the visions of city planners or administrators (Marcucci et al [33], McKinnon [5]) Starting from these first literature results, Russo and Comi [8] investigated the contribution of city logistics measures to improve environmental sustainability in European urban areas in terms of pollutant emissions, presenting some empirical relationships (i.e., models to identify effects) among environmental/green revealed goal indicators (e.g., reduction in air pollutant emissions: CO, NOx, SOx, PM) and city logistics measures.
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