Models and Measures for Sustainable City Logistics: Behavioral Choice Processes
Francesco Russo · Antonio Comi
Jul 2025 · Elsevier
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Models and Measures for Sustainable City: Behavioral Choice Processes Logistics offers a thorough understanding of urban freight movements, focusing on behavioral aspects of consumers. It outlines the role of modelling the behavioral aspects of people determining urban freight movements, mapping the behavior of the end consumer and the retailer which generates freight movements in an urban context. It provides new methods of urban freight transport simulation, taking into account the challenges of sustainable development goals, and uses the most recent approaches in modelling for city logistics scenario design and planning. It also outlines the relationships between measures and main components (expressed by indicators) of sustainable development.This book guides readers in implementing the most effective city logistics measures and actions, addressing the choice of a set of measures and the definition of planning scenarios. Readers are introduced to simulation methods for estimating impacts and system performance, which can be used for comparing the future scenario outcomes according to the set of target indicators defined by Agenda 2030. The book first specifies end consumer behaviors in purchasing processes, analyzing the individual phases of the purchase. The retailer's behaviors are then specified, and after specifying the patterns of the decision makers, the quantities of goods that constitute the references for the choices of the decision makers are analyzed. Finally, the book presents the problems whose solution makes it possible to identify the vehicles of the various types and then the flows on the network. The overall structure of the model system and the specification of each single model are then given. Some models calibrated in different real cases are presented, highlighting their applicability to other contexts. Finally, implementable measures are presented and the relationships between measures and main components (expressed by indicators) of sustainable development are examined.Transport technicians, post-graduate students, and academics alike will find this a valuable resource for understanding how to incorporate user behavior into transport planning and logistics modeling, ultimately helping them to optimize processes and promote sustainability. - Explains end-consumers and restocking choice modelling for supporting ex-ante and ex-post assessment of cities in relation to freight transport and logistics to the sustainable goals to pursue as defined by the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 - Utilizes state-of-the-art research and new research challenges addressed by sustainability - Provides tools for suggesting the best roadmap for improving city sustainability
About the author
Francesco Russo received an M.S. degree in civil engineering specialization in transportation from the University of Catania, Italy, in 1982. Since 1999, he has been Full Professor in transportation with the Dipartimento di ingegneria dell'Informazione, delle Infrastrutture e dell'Energia Sostenibile, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, where he lectures in Transportation Systems, Logistics Systems and Sustainable Mobility. His research interests include development and application of methods and models for the analysis and design of freight and passenger transport systems at urban and extra-urban scale, the development and implementation of ITS, and the analysis of emergency issues and evacuation of urban systems as well as the analysis of the risk in transport system. He was head of the Dipartimento di Informatica, Matematica, Elettronica e Trasporti, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, and the coordinator of Ph.D. course in Transportation Engineering and Logistics, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria.Antonio Comi is Associate Professor at the Department of Enterprise Engineering of University of Rome Tor Vergata. He lectures in Theory of Transport Systems, and Freight Transportation and Logistics Systems. His research activity mainly involves the development and application of methods and models for the analysis and design of freight and passenger transport systems at urban and extra-urban scale, the development of tools for supporting users on unreliable networks and the simulation of path choice in real-time transit simulation. He is Specialty Chief Editor for Transportation Systems Modeling / Frontiers in Future Transportation as well as Associate Editor for Journal of Advanced Transportation, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Transportation Engineering, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, and member of editorial board of several international journals. He has published more than 150 papers in the field of transportation and acts as reviewer for many international journals.
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