Models and Measures for Sustainable City Logistics

Behavioral Choice Processes

1 Edición - 1 de julio de 2026
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Autores: Francesco Russo, Antonio Comi
Idioma: Inglés

Models and Measures for Sustainable City Logistics: Behavioral Choice Processes offers a thorough understanding of urban goods movements, focusing on stakeholders’ behavior. It ou… Leer más

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Models and Measures for Sustainable City Logistics: Behavioral Choice Processes offers a thorough understanding of urban goods movements, focusing on stakeholders’ behavior. It outlines the role of modeling behaviors in determining urban goods movements, mapping the behavioral process of end consumers and retailers. It provides new methods of urban freight transport simulation, considering the challenges of sustainable development goals, and uses the most recent modeling approaches for designing and planning city logistics scenarios. It also outlines the relationships between measures and the main components of sustainable development. This book guides readers in implementing the most effective city logistics measures and actions through the estimation of impacts and system performances. It first specifies end-consumers’ behaviors, then formalizes retailers’ behaviors. Subsequently, decision-maker patterns and the goods quantities are analyzed. It presents problems whose solutions allow planners to identify various types of urban freight vehicles and subsequent road network flows. It also gives the overall structure of the model system and the specification of each single model. It presents some models calibrated in different real cases, highlighting their transferability to other contexts. It reviews the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It presents energy efficiency according to the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030, evidencing the different roles of the transshipment nodes. Furthermore, it introduces Implementable measures and examines the relationships between measures and the main components of Sustainable Development of Agenda 2030. Transportation technicians (urban transport planners, urban traffic managers and company f leet managers), postgraduate students, and researchers alike will find this to be a valuable resource to understand how to incorporate user behavior into urban freight transport and logistics planning and modeling, ultimately helping them optimize processes and promote sustainability.

Puntos claves

• Explains purchasing and restocking choice modeling to support ex-ante and ex-post assessment of urban transport in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030
• Uses state-of-the-art research and new research challenges addressed by sustainability
• Provides tools for suggesting the best roadmap for improving city sustainability

De interès para

Transport technicians, post-graduate students, and academics interested in implementing city logistics with particular emphasis to the availability methods and tools for forecasting freight demand

Índice

1. Introduction

2. Behavioural aspects of urban freight movements

3. Specification of the system of models

4. Calibration and validation of the system of models

5. Emerging information and communication technologies in the user learning process

6. Energy in city logistics

7. Urban freight transport measures

8. Urban freight transport impacts and policies

Detalles del producto

Edición: 1
Última edición
Publicado: 1 de julio de 2026
Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los autores

Francesco Russo

Francesco Russo, since 1999, has been a Full Professor in Transportation with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, delle Infrastrutture e dell’Energia Sostenibile, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria (Italy). At this university, he lectures on Transportation Systems, Logistics Systems, and Sustainable Mobility. He is the author of more than 300 papers in the field of transportation and logistics. He is a distinguished researcher at his university and is listed in the “Stanford-Elsevier List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists,” both for single-year impact (including 2025 and previous years) and for career- long impact. His research interests include the development and application of methods and models for the analysis and design of freight and passenger transport systems at urban and extra-urban scales, the development and implementation of ITS (intelligent transportation systems), and the analysis of emergency issues and evacuation of urban systems, as well as the analysis of the risk in the transport system. He is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals and a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee. He has been and is the Principal Investigator for many national and in ternational research projects and is member of the Editorial Board of several international high-impact journals. He is on the steering committee of various international projects, including the coordination of the General Mobility Plan prepared by the Italian Government, membership of the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Mayor Risks and co ordination of its Chemical, Nuclear, Industrial and Transport Risk Section. He was Head of the Dipartimento di Informatica, Matematica, Elettron ica e Trasporti, and the coordinator of the PhD course in Transportation Engineering and Logistics at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria.

Afiliaciones y experiencia

Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Antonio Comi

Antonio Comi is a Full Professor in Transportation at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Department of Enterprise Engineering “Mario Lucer tini,” Rome (Italy). With a PhD in Transportation Engineering from the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Prof. Comi has more than 25 years of experience in the field of urban freight transport as well as in transportation system simulation. He is a distinguished researcher at his uni versity and is listed in the “Stanford-Elsevier List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists,” both for single-year impact (including 2025 and previous years) and for career-long impact. He lectures on the Theory of Transport Systems and Freight Transpor tation and Logistics Systems and has coordinated and continues to coordi nate international teaching projects. His research activity mainly involves the development and application of methods and models for the analysis and design of freight and passenger transport systems at urban and extra- urban scales, the analysis of the transition to electric mobility and risk reduction in transportation systems and the use of information and commu nication technologies for promoting more sustainable transportation systems. He has been appointed a Board Member of the Italian Academic Society of Transport (SIDT) and served as treasurer. He serves as Specialty Chief Editor, Associate Editor, and member of the Editorial Board of several in ternational high-impact journals. He has published more than 150 indexed papers in the field of transportation and acts as a reviewer for many interna tional journals. He has coordinated and continues to coordinate interna tional and national research projects, and he is a member of international and national committees acting to select projects for funding.