Delivering goods in urban areas: How to deal with urban policy restrictions and the environment

Transportation Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 211-227

  Quak, H J ^a   De Koster, M B M ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Case study; City logistics; Experiment; Public policy; Retail distribution; Sustainability; Time windows; Vehicle restrictions; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; LOGISTICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SALES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

CITY LOGISTICS; DISTRIBUTION PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL BURDENS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL DESIGNS; RETAIL DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY; TIME WINDOWS;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 70449646815     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1080.0235     Document Type: Article

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