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34 Terminals and Hubs Impacts and Strategies Lanfranco Senn, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA Thierry Vanelslander, University of Antwerp, Belgium Clarence Woudsma, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Thomas O'Brien, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA Genevieve Giuliano, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA IntroductIon Lanfranco Senn Lanfranco Senn opened this session by saying that hubs have both a positive and a negative effect. Given global supply chains, freight has no well-defined borders, which results in "glocalism" (the practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations)
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35TERMINALS AND HUBS: IMPACTS AND STRATEGIES Rodrigue proposed the idea of using ports for city logistics. Port-centric logistics zones would offer advantages such as the availability of land and labor.
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36 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective pArt 2: strAtegIes For MItIgAtIng IMpActs oF terMInAls And hubs Consolidation Hubs and Freight Villages Thierry Vanelslander Thierry Vanelslander presented two strategies for mitigating the impact of consolidation hubs or freight villages: making a time shift and making a mode shift. Specifically, the first strategy for mitigating the impact of consolidation hubs or freight villages is to make better use of the existing network, which can be accomplished by shifting operations in time.
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37terminals and hubs: impacts and strategies Recommendations for Research Vanelslander concluded by offering some recommendations for collaborative research. First, he suggested that much more urban logistics research is needed into the areas of urbanization, congestion concentration, and pollution concentration.
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38 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective Canadian Examples Woudsma next offered some examples from Canada, particularly the greater Toronto area, which is subject to federal emissions standards, trade corridors, and the SmartWay program, as well as provincial regulations that limit trucks to speeds of 105 kilometers per hour. Regulations do permit one tractor pulling two 53-foot trailers, which improves fuel efficiency, although motorists are not happy with these long vehicles on the highway.
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39terminals and hubs: impacts and strategies sels' size limits the number of ports they can enter. The largest container ships, as of 2013, have a capacity of 18,270 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs)
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40 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective piece of a voluntary agreement to develop an environmental program that would encourage cleaner vehicles by offering subsidies and grants to truckers to retrofit or replace vehicles to accelerate truck replacement. A fee was attached to using older, dirtier trucks.
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41terminals and hubs: impacts and strategies replicated elsewhere due to the high costs and protracted negotiations involved. Recommendations for Research O'Brien concluded his presentation with an identification of research needs in three areas.
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42 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective Finally, from O'Brien's presentation, Marcucci appreciated seeing the effects of pricing policies and what could be done. He suggested that, methodologically, researchers could develop instruments to test the effects of policy interventions.
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43terminals and hubs: impacts and strategies in levels of density. He suggested research be done in the area of added value and value chain to find which cities are adding value.
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