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ISBN 10: 1786300273
ISBN 13: 9781786300270
Author: Corinne Blanquart, Uwe Clausen, Bernard Jacob

Towards Innovative Freight and Logistics explores new approaches, technologies, and policy frameworks shaping the future of freight transport and logistics systems. The book addresses challenges such as sustainability, efficiency, digitalization, and intermodality, bringing together research perspectives and practical insights from industry and academia. Intended for researchers, policymakers, logistics professionals, and graduate students, it provides a multidisciplinary view of how innovation can transform freight and logistics in response to economic and environmental demands.

Towards Innovative Freight and Logistics 1st Table of contents

PART 1: Optimization of Freight and Logistics
1 Smart Logistics Corridors and the Benefits of Intelligent Transport Systems
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Challenges: past, present and future
1.3. State of the art
1.4. New logistics concepts
1.5. Using corridors as our playing field
1.6. Short-term opportunities
1.7. Bibliography
2 Evaluation of the Road Transport Management System: A Self-Regulation Initiative in Heavy Vehicle Transport in South Africa
2.1. Introduction
2.2. History of RTMS
2.3. The Road Transport Management System
2.4. Observed successes
2.5. Conclusions
2.6. Bibliography
3 Is Freight Really Flexible in the Timetabling Process for a Mixed-Use Rail Network? Some Considerations Based on French Experience
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Literature review
3.3. Background: the French timetabling process
3.4. Cross-analysis of the key features of freight and passenger train paths
3.5. Fitting freight train paths into the timetable: a delicate balance of interests
3.6. Concluding remarks
3.7. Acknowledgments
3.8. Bibliography
4 The Routing Problem of an Innovative Urban Freight Distribution Scheme
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The proposed methodology
4.3. The assessment of the FURBOT freight distribution schema performance in the Genoa urban area
4.4. Conclusions
4.5. Acknowledgments
4.6. Bibliography
5 Information Sharing in Last Mile Distribution: Lessons Learned from a Pilot in Oslo
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Problem setting
5.3. GS1 Norway demonstration
5.4. Effects and experiences
5.5. Future outlook
5.6. Concluding remarks
5.7. Acknowledgments
5.8. Bibliography
6 Freight Distribution Based on Delivery Area Booking
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Methodological approach
6.3. The SyGAL interactive system
6.4. The Guided CESNA
6.5. The CEMAVIL in-the-field information system
6.6. Delivery area added services
6.7. Proposal summary
6.8. Conclusions and future prospects
6.9. Acknowledgments
6.10. Bibliography
PART 2: New Vehicle Concepts
7 Swedish Roadmap for High Capacity Transport (HCT)
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Vision, targets and potential
7.3. Milestones: 2015, 2020 and 2030
7.4. Recommendations and the next steps
7.5. Latest developments
7.6. Acknowledgments
7.7. Bibliography
8 Targeted Selection of Overweight Vehicles in Norway
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Impact of WIM systems
8.3. Use of WIM to select overweight vehicles
8.4. Conclusions
8.5. Bibliography
9 Possible Impacts of Increasing Maximum Truck Weight: Finland Case Study
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Methodology
9.3. Assessing impacts on the Finnish road freight sector
9.4. Estimated benefits of new larger and heavier trucks
9.5. Conclusions
9.6. Bibliography
10 SARTRE Automated Platooning Vehicles
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Use cases
10.3. Demonstrator system
10.4. Fuel consumption
10.5. Business case
10.6. Conclusions
10.7. Acknowledgments
10.8. Bibliography
11 Maintenance-on-Demand Concepts for Commercial Vehicles: The MoDe Project
11.1. Introduction
11.2. MoDe scenarios
11.3. Selected results
11.4. Conclusions
11.5. Acknowledgments
11.6. Bibliography
12 Facilitating Modal Shift by an Innovative Inland Vessel and Logistics System
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Background: some triggers for the development of an innovative Danube vessel
12.3. Technical specification: main technical data, innovative features beyond the state-of-the-art and LNG propulsion for NEWS
12.4. Logistical network structures adapted for NEWS
12.5. Danubian inland ports: clusters and port analysis
12.6. Conclusions
12.7. Acknowledgments
12.8. Bibliography
13 Navigator 2020 – Innovation in Inland Waterway Transport
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Policy framework and background
13.3. Navigator 2020 challenges and vision
13.4. Navigator 2020 action areas
13.5. Toward a deployment strategy
13.6. Bibliography
PART 3: Governance and Organizational Issues
14 Development of a Holistic Approach Fostering Innovation Uptake in the Logistics Area
14.1. Introduction
14.2. The LOGINN project and its methodology
14.3. Logistics practices
14.4. Key technologies
14.5. Correlation of unique barriers with solutions and enablers
14.6. Conclusion
14.7. Acknowledgments
14.8. Bibliography
15 Transformation of the Danube Ports into Logistics Centers and Their Integration in the EU Logistics Network
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Mathematical model
15.3. Numerical example
15.4. Simulation results
15.5. Conclusions
15.6. Acknowledgments
15.7. Bibliography
16 How to Create a Management Structure for Transport Corridors
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Research methodology and implementation
16.3. Description of other management structures in transport corridor initiatives
16.4. Reflections
16.5. Conclusions
16.6. Acknowledgments
16.7. Bibliography
17 The Role of Human Factors in Rail Freight Innovation
17.1. Introduction
17.2. SUSTRAIL track and vehicle innovations
17.3. Human factors analysis
17.4. Conclusions
17.5. Acknowledgments
17.6. Bibliography
18 Enhancing the Ramp-Up of a New Contract Logistics Business by Developing a Workers’ Requirements Matrix
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Literature review
18.3. Methodology
18.4. Results and transferability
18.5. Conclusions
18.6. Acknowledgments
18.7. Bibliography
19 Engaging City Stakeholders to Achieve Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Urban Freight Movements
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Literature review
19.3. Methodology
19.4. Analysis
19.5. Conclusions
19.6. Acknowledgments
19.7. Bibliography
20 Energy-Efficient Urban Freight Logistics: the Set-up and Operation of Freight Quality Partnerships in European Cities
20.1. Introduction
20.2. Background
20.3. Pilot freight quality partnerships
20.4. Results
20.5. Conclusions
20.6. Acknowledgments
20.7. Bibliography
PART 4: Assessment Framework and Future Steps
21 How Green are the TEN-T Core Network Corridors?
21.1. Introduction
21.2. Green characteristics of a transport corridor
21.3. Transport network development in Europe
21.4. The proposed revision of the TEN-T policy
21.5. Governance of green corridors
21.6. Policy recommendations on green corridor development
21.7. Conclusions
21.8. Acknowledgments
21.9. Bibliography
22 The Role of Corridor Development in Boosting the European Industrial Future Based on Northern Scandinavian Mines
22.1. Introduction
22.2. Research work
22.3. Results
22.4. Conclusions
22.5. Acknowledgments
22.6. Bibliography
23 Effect of a Full Internalization of External Costs of Global Supply Chains on Production, Trade and Transport
23.1. Introduction
23.2. Definition of externalities
23.3. Externalities in the supply chain
23.4. Modeling of impacts
23.5. Results
23.6. Conclusions
23.7. Bibliography
24 A City Distribution Impact Assessment Framework
24.1. Introduction
24.2. STRAIGHTSOL approach and methodology
24.3. Benchmarking
24.4. Application
24.5. Conclusion
24.6. Acknowledgments
24.7. Bibliography
25 Evaluation of the Urban Freight Transportation (UFT) Projects
25.1. Urban freight transport (UFT)
25.2. Evaluation
25.3. Evaluation in UFT
25.4. Case studies
25.5. Key findings
25.6. Acknowledgments
25.7. Bibliography
26 The Unknown Part of the Transport System: the Light Duty Vehicle
26.1. Introduction
26.2. The survey
26.3. The fleet
26.4. LDVs users and uses
26.5. Distance covered
26.6. Conclusion
26.7. Bibliography

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