Collaborative Urban Transportation : Recent Advances in Theory and Practice

Cleophas, Catherine and Cottrill, Caitlin and Ehmke, Jan Fabian and Tierney, Kevin (2019) Collaborative Urban Transportation : Recent Advances in Theory and Practice. European Journal of Operational Research, 273 (3). pp. 801-816. ISSN 0377-2217

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Abstract

Increasing urbanization has turned transporting freight from, to, and within urban areas into a major challenge. Freight transportation represents a lifeline for urban retail and industry, but causes significant negative impacts on the quality of living in urban areas in terms of congestion, emissions and space consumption. City logistics initiatives have long suggested the need for collaborative and environmentally friendly urban transportation that could alleviate the negative impacts of urban transportation, but these face organizational and technological challenges of collaboration. Given technological advancements and innovative business models, concepts of collaborative urban transportation could contribute to a future paradigm of more sustainable and customer-friendly urban transportation. In this work, we collect and discuss contributions to collaborative freight transportation in urban areas with focus on recent publications (i.e. those published over the past ten years). We particularly analyze vertical and horizontal approaches of collaboration from an operations research perspective and point out strategic, tactical, and operational planning problems and solution approaches. To highlight research gaps and future research opportunities, we present innovative examples of collaborative urban transportation and analyze factors of failure and success. Collecting recent advances in theory and practice of collaborative urban transportation allows us to distill alternative visions of future collaborative freight transportation in urban areas.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
European Journal of Operational Research
Additional Information:
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in European Journal of Operational Research. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in European Journal of Operational Research, 273, 3, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.04.037
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? urban logisticscollaborative transportationreviewcollaborationmodelling and simulationmanagement science and operations researchinformation systems and management ??
ID Code:
124998
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Deposited On:
03 May 2018 14:24
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Yes
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