Urban Freight Transportation Systems

Professor of Management and Logistics at the Technische Universität. He has extensive experiences in transportation logistics, intermodal freight transport, and intralogistics as an academic researcher and consultant to both the public and private sectors. He is Chair of the WCTRS special interest group on intermodal freight transport. Christian Friedrich is a Research Associate at the Chair of Management and Logistics at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. His research focus is on urban freight consolidation concepts and applications of simulation modeling and analysis in logistics, transportation, and supply chains. Head of the Institute of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering at the Technische Universität. His research focuses on traffic, transport management, and Intelligent Transport Systems. He has been an Editorial Board member of several journals, including the Journal of International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences. He serves as a Member of the Scientific Committee and Steering Committee for the WCTRS. is Professor Emeritus at the Technische Universität and Professor of Management and Logistics at the Tongji-University. The result of his management, logistics and supply chain research is documented in an extensive list of books, articles and reports. He held numerous offices in science, associations and industry. He is Head of the European Logistics Association Committee for Research, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journals Logistics Research, Logistique & Management and the International Journal of Logistics Management.

• Introduction: Emerging Issues in Urban Freight Transportation Systems – Introduction and Overview of the BookPart A: Land-use and Urban Production1. Logistics Locations Patterns – Distance-based methods for relative industrial concentration measurement applied to the region of Berlin-Brandenburg2. Developing a pricing model for promoting coordinated resource demand in cooperative warehouses3. Urban Factories – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Resource Efficiency Part B: Logistics Concepts and Urban Freight Transportation4. Improving cost efficiency and environmental impact through the integration of light freight and passenger railway transport and last mile distribution analysis5. Commercial traffic 2.0 – Analysis and recommendations of delivery strategies for the package delivery industry in urban areas6. The impact of data accuracy for efficient and feasible routing plans7. Last mile transport of fragmented deliveries: delivery preferences of nanostoreowners8. The Development and Status Quo of Freight Transport in China9. Transshipment Hub Automation in China’s CEP sectorPart C: Application of New Technologies and Deployment of Electric Vehicles10. Scenario-based development of Intelligent Transportation Systems for road freight transport in Germany11. Assessing the potential of truck platooning in short distances: the case study of Portugal12. E-vehicles for urban logistics – why is it not happening yet? - requirements of an innovative and sustainable urban logistics concept13. Mobility behavior of companies in urban areas: A triangulation approach to explore the potential for BEV14. Enhancing the potential for BEV by identifying behaviorally homogenous groups in commercial trafficConclusion: Urban Freight Transportation Systems: Current Trends and Prospects for the Future