The number of light commercial vehicles (LCV) in cities is growing, which puts increasing pressure on the liveability of cities. Small electric freight vehicles and cargo bikes can offer a solution, as they take less space, can manoeuvre easily and free from polluting emissions. Within the two-year LEVV-LOGIC …

The number of light commercial vehicles (LCV) in cities is growing, which puts increasing pressure on the livability of cities. Freight vehicles are large contributors to polluting air and CO2 emissions and generate problems in terms of safety, noise and loss of public space. Small electric freight vehicles …

Cities’ sustainability strategies seem to aim at the reduction of the negative impacts of urban freight transport. In the past decades, many public and private initiatives have struggled to gain broad stakeholder support and thus remain viable. Researchers and practitioners have only recently recognised …

A short report on the final meeting of the FREVUE project: Freight Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe. On the four central themes in this 4 year project were the main conclusions: on technics, there is still a lack of an OEM who delivers large scale electric freight vehicles with the required quality …

This study investigates whether a system of hub locations distributing goods across the water to the city of Amsterdam can be a potential future solution to guarantee same-day delivery to shopkeepers. A simulation model was developed to analyse the logistics performances and to optimise the number of …

Deze rapportage is onderdeel van het LEVV-LOGIC project (2016-2018) waarinonderzoek gedaan wordt naar de inzet van lichte elektrische vrachtvoertuigen (LEVVs) voor stadslogistiek. Steeds meerbedrijven wilLEVVsontwikkelen of gebruiken voor het vervoer van goederen in steden. Echter, ditgaat gepaard met …

This report describes the development software of the Ship Monitoring and Management system. The Transport sector is one of the biggest sectors in the Netherlands. Products are transported by road, rail and river. Most of the sectors in the transport sector try to reduce the environmental footprint. However …

Het concreet handen en voeten geven aan duurzaam transport is voor veel logistieke dienstverleners en verladers nog steeds een relatief lastige vraag. Bijna elk transporterend bedrijf is bezig met duurzaamheid, maar men lijkt weinig van elkaar te leren. Het delen van ervaringen zou logistieke dienstverleners …

As environmental concerns becoming increasingly important to logistics service providers, the question arises as to how they can achieve sustainable physical distribution practices while surviving the severe competition in freight transport. This issue is further complicated by the pressures from the …

To what extent will future demands of worldwide operating parties, regarding the (tertiary) packaging of their freight flows, determine or influence the future dimensions of freight trucks? That is the question we address to in this paper. In this study we have studied what container sizes may fit in …