<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The salient scope of this paper is to enable the knowledge and understanding of urban freight transportation and provide guidance for implementing sustainable policies and measures in a city. To achieve this goal, an evaluation framework for city logistics policies and measures is developed, which demonstrates the complexity of urban freight transportation systems, through selected performance indicators, taking into account divergent stakeholders’ interests, conflicting business models and operations. Evaluation follows a hierarchical process; sustainability disciplines (economy and energy, environment, transportation and mobility, society), applicability enablers (policy and measure maturity, social acceptance and users’ uptake), multiple criteria and indicators, capturing the lifecycle impact of policies and measures and multiple stakeholders. Apart from the multicriteria context, the framework embeds methodologies, including, Impact Assessment, Social Cost Benefit Analysis, Transferability and Adaptability, and Risk Analysis. To demonstrate its applicability a case study is set for the City of Graz assessing the establishment of an Urban Consolidation Center. Results show that there is an overall improvement of 2.2% in the Logistics Sustainability Index when comparing before and after implementation cases of the Urban Consolidation Center.</p></abstract>

The salient scope of this paper is to enable the knowledge and understanding of urban freight transportation and provide guidance for implementing sustainable policies and measures in a city. To achieve this goal, an evaluation framework for city logistics policies and measures is developed, which demonstrates the complexity of urban freight transportation systems, through selected performance indicators, taking into account divergent stakeholders’ interests, conflicting business models and operations. Evaluation follows a hierarchical process; sustainability disciplines (economy and energy, environment, transportation and mobility, society), applicability enablers (policy and measure maturity, social acceptance and users’ uptake), multiple criteria and indicators, capturing the lifecycle impact of policies and measures and multiple stakeholders. Apart from the multicriteria context, the framework embeds methodologies, including, Impact Assessment, Social Cost Benefit Analysis, Transferability and Adaptability, and Risk Analysis. To demonstrate its applicability a case study is set for the City of Graz assessing the establishment of an Urban Consolidation Center. Results show that there is an overall improvement of 2.2% in the Logistics Sustainability Index when comparing before and after implementation cases of the Urban Consolidation Center.

Sustainability Framework for Assessing Urban Freight Transportation Measures

Department of Civil Engineering Pedion Areos

Logistics, Supply Chain, Sustainability and Global Challenges

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The salient scope of this paper is to enable the knowledge and understanding of urban freight transportation and provide guidance for implementing sustainable...

Sustainability Framework for Assessing Urban Freight Transportation Measures

Published Online: Oct 29, 2018

Page range: 16 - 36

Received: Mar 26, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jlst-2018-0007

Keywords
Index Terms: Framework, Logistics assessment, Sustainability, Urban logistics

© 2018 Eftihia Nathanail et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Sustainability Framework for Assessing Urban Freight Transportation Measures

Published Online: Oct 29, 2018

Page range: 16 - 36

Received: Mar 26, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jlst-2018-0007

KeywordsIndex Terms: Framework, Logistics assessment, Sustainability, Urban logistics

© 2018 Eftihia Nathanail et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Index Terms: Framework, Logistics assessment, Sustainability, Urban logistics