Possibilities of Integrating Urban Logistics Centers (ULC) into the Freight Service of Cities

Abstract

The article deals with the possibilities of integrating urban logistics centres into the freight service of cities. The authors aim is to define the issue of City freight logistics and the overall processes within this system of serving cities to meet the needs of the population. Attention is successively paid to the approach to the location of urban logistics centres, the costs of their construction and the benefits of their actual use. Subsequently, statistical data on the possibilities of distributing food and fruit and mixed municipal waste through urban logistics centres are presented and, using mixed municipal waste as an example, the specific optimisation of its collection through the creation of round trips, which are an integral part of the servicing of urban logistics centres, is applied.