ACTIVITIES TRAINING ON CITY LOGISTICS: CASE STUDY OF THE CALABRIA REGION, ITALY

Using Six Sigma in the Management of City Logistics Processes: A Case Study on the Impact Assessment of Transport Infrastructure on Fuel Consumption in Szczecin

EUROPEAN RESEARCH STUDIES JOURNAL ◽

10.35808/ersj/2093 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol XXIV (Special Issue 1) ◽

pp. 1152-1177

Author(s):

Justyna Lemke ◽

Roma Strulak-Wojcikiewicz

Keyword(s):

Impact Assessment ◽

Fuel Consumption ◽

Six Sigma ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

City Logistics ◽

The Impact

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Forest Management and Biomass Production for Energy: A Case Study in Calabria Region (Italy)

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences ◽

10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.277 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 223 ◽

pp. 805-811 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pasquale A. Marziliano ◽

Fabio Lombardi ◽

Valeria Altieri ◽

Vittoria Coletta ◽

Giuliano Menguzzato ◽

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Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Biomass Production ◽

Calabria Region

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Estudo de operações city logistics para aumento da competitividade em uma empresa de aparelhos auditivos na cidade de Campinas-SP

Revista Produção e Desenvolvimento ◽

10.32358/rpd.2017.v3.221 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 65-78

Author(s):

David Costa Monteiro ◽

Fábio Ytoshi Shibao ◽

Noel Ferreira de Souza

Keyword(s):

Hearing Aids ◽

Large City ◽

City Logistics ◽

Concrete Problem ◽

The Subject ◽

A Company

Discuss this article logistics operation possibilities made possible from the needs and ideas sponsored by a company that sells hearing aids in a large city paulista inside: Campinas. It turns out that, to address the serious logistical problems of distribution of hearing aids in this city, the organization needed to innovate in the field of distribution of its products. Contextualizes that logistics is often intuitive, which, in practice, usually leads the manager to the study of the subject, always deserving of ratification and permanent study. The objective was to review central logistics issues, specifically aiming to expose how the discipline actually helped a particular organization to solve the concrete problem of distribution of its products. The methodological course is reviewed by literature and case study, justifying the research for its high practical value. The results obtained indicate the validity of the solution adopted by a certain company, this constant to go as far as the customer was through specialized vendors, presenting the measure the recovery and a significant increase in the clientele of the company studied.

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Urban Mobility and City Logistics – Trends and Case Study

PROMET - Traffic&Transportation ◽

10.7307/ptt.v30i5.2825 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (5) ◽

pp. 613-622 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rodrigo Rezende Amaral ◽

Ivana Šemanjski ◽

Sidharta Gautama ◽

El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Air Pollution ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Traffic Management ◽

City Logistics ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Travel Times ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Goods And Services

Improving urban mobility is crucial to the sustainable development of a city. Well-managed movement of individuals, goods, and services is essential to increase citizens’ welfare, not only by reducing travel times and congestion levels, but also by minimizing air pollution, noise, accidents, etc. To achieve the desired results, the objectives and scope of the optimization efforts have become broader in recent years. Instead of focusing only on the flows and on the network itself, research and projects have connected various areas of economy to traffic management, such as public health and logistic optimization. In this work we discuss the interconnections between urban mobility and city logistics, and present a case study showing how the mobility plan implemented in Ghent (Belgium) in April 2017 affected its logistic system.

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Scaling up Smart City Logistics Projects: The Case of the Smooth Project

Smart Cities ◽

10.3390/smartcities4040071 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 1337-1365

Author(s):

Eleonora Sista ◽

Pietro De De Giovanni

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Success Factors ◽

Scale Up ◽

Pilot Project ◽

Scaling Up ◽

City Logistics ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The City ◽

Roll Out

A large number of smart city logistics projects fail to scale up, remaining a local experimental exercise. This lack of scalability is, in fact, commonly recognized as a major problem. This study aims to determine the key success factors related to the scalability of smart city logistics projects. The process of scaling up, which is articulated as expansion, roll-out, and replication, is defined as the ability of a system to improve its scale by aiming to meet the increasing volume demand. Specifically, this study investigates the scalability intended to be used as expansion and roll-out. A qualitative case study was conducted to fulfill the research purpose. The chosen case study is SMOOTh, a pilot project currently underway in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, involving a diverse group of companies including Volvo Group and DHL. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven of the project’s stakeholders. Through a thematic analysis, four categories and the respective success factors were identified. These were represented by a business model, as well as technical, stakeholder and regulatory factors. The paper concludes with observations and recommendations aimed at the pilot initiatives, adding new perspectives to the upscaling debate.

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Defining Urban Freight Microhubs: A Case Study Analysis

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su14010532 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 532

Author(s):

Konstantina Katsela ◽

Şeyma Güneş ◽

Travis Fried ◽

Anne Goodchild ◽

Michael Browne

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Economic Impacts ◽

City Logistics ◽

Common Language ◽

Study Analysis ◽

Urban Freight ◽

Case Study Analysis ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Urban Consolidation

Urban freight distribution has confronted several challenges, including negative environmental, social, and economic impacts. Many city logistics initiatives that use the concept of Urban Consolidation Centers (UCCs) have failed. The failure of many UCCs does not mean that the idea of additional terminals or microhubs should be rejected. There is limited knowledge about the advantages and disadvantages of using microhubs, requiring further exploration of this concept. To expand this knowledge, this research combines 17 empirical cases from Europe and North America to develop a framework for classifying different microhubs typologies. This research presents an integrated view of the cases and develops a common language for understanding microhub typologies and definitions. The research proposes microhubs as an important opportunity to improve urban freight sustainability and efficiency and one possible step to manage the challenge of multi-sector collaboration.

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