Classification and benchmark of City Logistics measures: an empirical analysis

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1. What type of measures are implemented in more than 50% of the panel of European cities?

2. How can night deliveries be used to solve problems?

3. What is the main argument for the improved monitoring b of lay-by areas?

4. Why is it expected that cities will implement multiple CL initiatives?

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In particular, three types of measures are implemented in more than 50% of the panel of European cities, namely: Low Impact Vehicles, UCCs and Low Emission Zones.

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Night deliveries can resolve issues generated by freight transportation, by shifting deliveries toduring less congested time periods.

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In the long term, the improved monitoring b of lay-by areas may be a successful deterrent against the illegal use of these areas, leading to the improved correct use of the road network.

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In particular, it is expected that highly populated cities are called upon to implement multiple CL initiatives due to an increased demand for goods and consequent further pressure on urban logistics (Behrends, 2016).

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32 out of the 70 cities are located in the South (Italy, Spain, Monaco), 13 in the North (Denmark,the Central Eastern Europe (Germany, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania).

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Micro-consolidation centres (MCC) are small warehouses located within the city centre, in whichgoods are transhipped from heavy commercial vehicles to electric distribution vehicles for the last mile of the delivery process.

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As mentioned above, a major limitation of the analysis proposed in this paper lies in the lack ofdetailed financial variables indicating the capacity of a city council or private company to fund the implementation of a CL project, alongside more aggregate factors such as GDP per capita and growth of GDP.

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the spatial expansion of a city in terms of squared kilometres is related to an increased interest in the problem of urban logistics and this has a positive impact on CL initiative development (Jedlinski, 2014).

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the implementation of UCCs sometimes struggles with high set-up costs or limited attractiveness to logistics companies, given that freight flows are already consolidated at an intra-company level and the UCCs are not able to handle a wide range of goods.

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According to Browne (2013), combining solutions and reinforcing different networks is beneficial to the effectiveness of CL initiatives and systems.

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On the contrary, low growth rates are associated with more CL initiatives, based on the demand for increased efficiency and to create cheaper methods of urban logistics organisation.

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In fact, Marchau et al. (2008) argue that an integrated view of the different policy options is necessary for urban transport policy making.

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the methodology proposed for computing the set of CLIs can enhance existing qualitativeworks such as that presented by Russo and Comi (2016), can be considered as a basis for the CL integrated metrics for diffusion analysis of CL projects, and can provide more robust results to garner insights regarding the status of CL initiatives across Europe.

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the increasing success of e-commerce has caused a shift in the operations of logisticscompanies from Business to Business (B2B) to Business to Customer (B2C).

Classification and benchmark of City Logistics measures: an empirical analysis

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1. What type of measures are implemented in more than 50% of the panel of European cities?

2. How can night deliveries be used to solve problems?

3. What is the main argument for the improved monitoring b of lay-by areas?

4. Why is it expected that cities will implement multiple CL initiatives?

5. How many cities are located in the south of Europe?

6. What is the definition of a micro-consolidation centre?

7. What is the main limitation of the analysis proposed in this paper?

8. What is the impact of the spatial expansion of a city on the development of CL initiatives?

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10. According to Browne (2013), what is the importance of combining solutions and reinforcing?

11. Why are low growth rates associated with more CL initiatives?

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14. What is the effect of the increasing success of e-commerce on the operations of logistics companies?

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