URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORT: LEARNING FROM THE PRACTICES IN TWO COUNTRIES

Abstract

Holland and Japan, like other countries, are confronted with a growing need for freight transportation. Although multimodal transportation modes will gain more market share in the future, the scenarios for the next decades still predict a continuous growth of truck transportation. Therefore, reducing congestion problems and their negative environmental impacts seems to be an important goal for the local governments of both countries. Next to these reductions, improving the quality of the living environment is also a common goal for the governments in the field of urban transportation logistics. Various policy measures are taken by the local authorities to satisfy some of these goals. Confronted with the differences in policy measures in the two countries, the research orientations have a different scope. Both modelling and implementation are different, but the integration of both leads to new promising ideas. The results of the research joint venture between Kyoto University and the Technical University of Delft are discussed in the paper.