Recent Trends and Innovations in Modelling City Logistics

TLDR

Urban freight faces challenges of growing cities, aging populations needing home healthcare, and deteriorating air quality. The paper reviews recent trends and innovations in city logistics modelling. It outlines new modelling techniques for emissions, healthcare, and mega‑cities, detailing their formulation, solution methods, and applications.

Abstract

There are many challenges associated with moving goods within cities as urban areas become larger and elderly residents require more healthcare in their homes. Air quality is also impacted by urban freight vehicles. This paper presents a review of recent trends and innovations in modelling city logistics. New techniques for modelling city logistics developed in the areas of emissions, healthcare and mega-cities are outlined. This paper describes the formulation, solution methodologies and applications of these models.