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Supply Chains and Urban Logistics Platforms

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This chapter introduces the stakes of urban goods transport integration in city development, through a supply chain and platforms approach. The urban logistics subject is analysed both from the public and private sector point of view. By identifying the structure of present and hypothetical future demand in terms of urban goods movements, various types of logistics platform are suggested as possible solutions for the improvement of goods distribution within urban areas. The chapter ends with recommendations on new forms of organizations, technologies and governance.

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Notes

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    When operating pick-ups.

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    High variations exist according to the products, organizations, chains, but this average value is generally accepted.

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    This designation covers all the equipments designed to optimize the urban goods deliveries through the use of transhipping (Boudouin 2006).

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    Various works carried out noticeably in the «Marchandises en ville» program allowed to understand the fundamental motives of the public policies.

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    Who are also voters.

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    With a high dispersion according to the weight, volume, value of the analysed goods.

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    These professionals can also be shippers: a distributor can operate its supplying without needing the help of a service provider.

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    Companies consider that the rules have to be clearly defined by policies.

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    But also promote.

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    The 7–10 h period is the one when light goods transport vehicles enter dense areas, often being in conflicts with the transport of people (cars, buses, motorbikes…).

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    Caused by a difficult topography, a particular history, or even regulations.

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    In Paris, one out of two households is not motorized.

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    This involvement is quite recent and really took consistence around 2000.

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    SCOT : Territorial coherence scheme, PDU : Urban mobility plan, PLU : Local Urbanism plan.

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    French Institute of Transport and Security Research.

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    This concept is also referred as Urban Consolidation Centre or City Distribution Centre (BESTUFS 2009, Gonzalez-Feliu and Morana 2010).

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    Sustainable and Mutualized Urban Logistics, a French PREDIT project.

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Boudoin, D., Morel, C., Gardat, M. (2014). Supply Chains and Urban Logistics Platforms. In: Gonzalez-Feliu, J., Semet, F., Routhier, JL. (eds) Sustainable Urban Logistics: Concepts, Methods and Information Systems. EcoProduction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31788-0_1

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