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44 Logistics Efficiency in Urban Areas Part 1 Alan C McKinnon, Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany Téodor Gabriel Crainic, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada José Holguín-Veras, Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA IntroductIon Alan C
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45logistics efficiency in urban areas: Part 1 Government does not worry about freight because freight movement is primarily handled by the private sector. The result is that government takes a rule-heavy approach to mitigate the impact of freight transport on citizens.
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46 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective worldwide web that consist of independent networks interconnected in a transparent way for the user. The digital internet involves transmission of standard formatted information flows (data packets)
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47logistics efficiency in urban areas: Part 1 to improve efficiency? Holguín-Veras listed eight interventions, which can be grouped into four areas: supply interventions, operations, demand, and policy interventions.
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48 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective carriers gain through OHD is not large enough to compensate for the receivers' costs. The solution, therefore, is either to compensate receivers for their additional costs or to develop technologies or systems that allow receivers to accept OHD at lower costs.
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49logistics efficiency in urban areas: Part 1 nomics, and policy. Research Areas 5 through 7 could include freight demand modeling, behavior, consideration of tour behavior, economics, and policy.
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