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28 Open Forum on Cross-Cutting Issues Alan C McKinnon, Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany IntroductIon Alan C
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29open forum on cross-cutting issues but will be testing and learning and would be open to being a participant in further research. Genevieve Giuliano commented that the Schemes and Technologies for Enhancing Urban Distribution session fascinated her because Part 1 and Part 2 were so different.
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30 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective Vaghi also asked whether it was valid to assume that consolidation centers can be viable without strong regulatory schemes and incentives. He asked what participants thought of the assumption taken by thirdparty logistics providers that dropping goods off at a consolidation center shifts the least profitable deliveries to the public, making the public shoulder the cost, which would not be true if consolidation centers operated without subsidies.
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31open forum on cross-cutting issues Ken Button noted that the symposium's private-sector presentations had an international perspective, not just the United States or EU. This is a product of globalization, he said, and information in the private sector travels faster than it does in the public sector.
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32 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective six elements. The elements are not simple, but they are comprehensible.
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33open forum on cross-cutting issues services more efficiently? It would be helpful, in these broader strategies, to define the objective of the research more sharply.
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