Volume 11 - Volume 11
Contribution of Best Practices to Promote Sustainable Urban Freight Transport
Abstract
Urban logistics decision makers face serious challenges in trying to make urban freight transport
(UFT) efficient and sustainable. Therefore, it is necessary to identify best practices (BPs) to promote
improvements on activity levels, modal shifts to lower-carbon transport systems, lowering energy and
intensity, and reducing fuel carbon intensity. This paper conducts an exhaustive literature review that
seeks to identify that are directly applicable to BPs promoting sustainable UFT and that indicate the
opportunities and challenges of urban logistics. The results indicate that, although BPs make sense for
themselves, the most powerful effect occurs when two or more of them are used together, multiplying
their strengths. Furthermore, there is an expressive participation of environmental and economic
indicators (costs and service levels) to the detriment of social indicators, thus indicating a literary gap.
Paper Details
PaperID: 2658
Author's Name: Tassia Faria De Assis, Victor Hugo Souza De Abreu, Pedro José Pires Carneiro and Marcio De Almeida D’Agosto
Volume: Volume 11
Issues: Volume 11
Keywords: Urban Freight Transport, Best Practice, Sustainable Indicators, Benefits and Barriers.
Year: 2021
Month: December
Pages: 5928-5949