TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 23: Synthesis of Freight Research in Urban Transportation Planning explores policies and practices for managing freight activity in metropolitan areas. The primary focus of the report is on “last-mile/first-mile” strategies, but it also addresses strategies affecting environmental issues and trading hubs or nodes.
The research used to develop the report looked beyond the United States—mostly, but not exclusively, in Europe and the European BESTUFS (Best Urban Freight Solutions) program—for potentially relevant policies and practices that could be used in the United States.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2013. Synthesis of Freight Research in Urban Transportation Planning. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/22573.
Chapters | skim | |
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Front Matter | i-vi | |
Summary | 1-9 | |
Section 1 - Current State of Knowledge of Urban Freight Flows and Their Impacts | 10-22 | |
Section 2 - Urban Freight Problems and Strategies | 23-61 | |
Section 3 - The U.S. Policy Context | 62-68 | |
Section 4 - Conclusions and Recommendations | 69-81 | |
References | 82-90 |
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