EVALUATING CITY LOGISTICS MEASURES CONSIDERING THE BEHAVIOR OF SEVERAL STAKEHOLDERS

TLDR

The study develops a methodology to evaluate city logistics measures by accounting for the behavior of multiple stakeholders in urban freight transport. The authors modeled five stakeholder groups—administrators, residents, shippers, freight carriers, and expressway operators—using a simulation on a test road network that incorporated truck bans and urban expressway tolling to analyze stakeholder interactions. Simulation results showed that truck bans and tolling improved overall stakeholder conditions only approximately, with truck bans reducing resident complaint zones and promoting a more equitable environment.

Abstract

In this paper, we examined a methodology for evaluating city logistics measures while considering the behavior of several stakeholders associated with urban freight transport. We considered five stakeholders of administrators, residents, shippers, freight carriers and urban expressway operators. We assumed that they behaved on the basis of their own criteria for evaluating the effects of city logistics measures, and organized the interaction among these stakeholders. We performed simulation on test road network and implemented truck ban and tolling of urban expressway as city logistics measures. Results indicated that implementation of these measures did not improve the conditions of all stakeholders exactly but it was favorable for them approximately. Also, we could point out that truck ban had an effect to disperse the zones that residents make a complaint and provide an equal environment for residents.