Environmental and energy benefits of freight delivery consolidation in urban area.

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• Creators:
  Lin, Jane ; Chen, Qin ; Kawamura, Kazuya
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Delivery vehicles
  • Logistics
  • Consolidation
  • Vehicle miles of travel
  • Energy consumption
  • Feasibility analysis
  • Urban areas
  • Costs
  • Freight traffic
  • Environmental impacts
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CFIRE 03-19
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (U.S.)
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-FREIGHT-FREIGHT ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Environment Impacts ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICY
• Abstract:
  Among new, innovative city logistics strategies, delivery cooperation has received increasing academic and ; practical attention mostly in Europe and Japan. The idea is to establish cooperation among the suppliers, carriers ; and the customers through Urban Consolidation Center (UCC), a public facility usually located at the city ; boundary; with proper consolidation of loads and routing, the goods are then sent to the customers in the urban ; area with cleaner vehicles and less vehicle miles traveled (VMT). In this study, we investigated the feasibility of ; UCC in an urban setting at the tactical level with respect to total logistics cost and environmental impact. In other ; words, whether UCC could reduce the logistics cost which involves the monetary costs for activities from ; production to consumption, while maintaining acceptable level of energy consumption and vehicular emissions. ; It is found that under certain conditions, UCC may become a favorable last-mile urban delivery solution to the ; current one without a UCC. Especially the benefits of UCC strategies become significant when the customer rent ; cost is high and UCC terminal operation cost is low. UCC becomes more beneficial as the economic scale is ; greater (i.e., higher numbers of customers and suppliers). In addition, public subsidy for UCC terminals would ; make urban cooperative delivery more competitive, resulting in lower truck VMT and emissions in the urban ; area.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT06-G-0020 ; 168k044
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26167/dot_26167_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.33 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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