Urban Micro-Consolidation and Last Mile Goods Delivery by Freight-Tricycle in Manhattan: Opportunities and Challenges
2012; Linguagem: Inglês
Autores
Alison Conway, Pierre-Emmanuel Fatisson, Penny Eickemeyer, Jialei Cheng, Diniece Peters,
Tópico(s)Smart Parking Systems Research
ResumoNew York City (NYC) must identify new strategies to address severe urban delivery challenges resulting from congested roads and inadequate loading space. One solution with the potential to achieve benefits for the city, for carriers, and for shippers while making use of the city's rapidly growing bicycle infrastructure is freight distribution from an urban micro-consolidation center (UMC) via human-powered or electrically-aided freight-tricycle. UMCs have been successfully implemented in Paris and London; this study details the results of a comparative analysis evaluating economic, infrastructure, and regulatory conditions in the three cities for the purpose of identifying opportunities and challenges for future implementation in Manhattan.
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