Managing Urban Logistics

Rosário Macário is Professor and Researcher of Transportation at the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georresources at Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade de Lisboa, and Professor of Transport and Regional Economics at University of Antwerp. Her transport research covers all transport modes and focuses on business and systems development, mobility planning and management, regulation, policy development, and financing. She is the author and editor of several books and Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s journal “Case studies for Transport Policy.” Vasco Reis is Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon. He teaches Freight Transport and Logistics as well as Transport Planning and Operations. He is member of the Freight and Logistics Committee of the European Transport Conference, as well as member of Transport Research Board’s Intermodal Transfer Facilities Committee and Intermodal Freight Transport Committee. He is an Editorial Board Member of Elsevier’s Case Studies on Transport Policy and a reviewer for several Elsevier journals, including Transportation Research: Part A and Transportation Research: Part E.

About the Authors Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Logistic profiles and Business Models 3. Mass vs customized distribution 4. Modeling urban logistics 5. Vehicles for Sustainable Logistics 6. Reverse Logistics 7. Corporate trends 8. Stakeholders’ views 9. Need for light touch regulation 10. Assessment methodologies at different stages of implementation 11. Need for innovation 12. The way forward