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"This book presents fundamental concepts and general approaches to City Logistics. City Logistics is the process of totally optimising urban logistics activities by considering the social, environmental, economic, financial and energy impacts of urban freight movement. City Logistics initiatives are required to solve urban freight transport problems including high levels of traffic congestion, negative environmental impacts, high energy consumption and a shortage of labour." "The focus of this work is on modelling City Logistics. Modelling is of crucial importance, since estimates of the impacts by City Logistics measures are required for evaluating them. It highlights the formulation of mathematical models of vehicle routing and scheduling with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), optimal terminal locations and impact estimation by City Logistics measures. Heuristics techniques such as genetic algorithms simulated annealing and tabu search are also given to identify approximate optimal solution of these combinatorial optimisation problems." "ITS provides powerful tools for efficiently managing and operating vehicle fleets. Sophisticated logistics systems can now be developed by integrating Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with application software. In this context, the book presents a theoretical and practical treatment of modelling City Logistics based on ITS." "The models described in this book will provide essential tools for researchers and city planners for evaluating City Logistics policies and measures to help solve urban freight problems."--Jacket.

Transport. Traffic --- Engineering --- Automobile and Transportation --- Intelligent transportation systems --- Transportation --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Transportation Engineering --- Planning --- Public transportation --- Transport --- Transportation, Primitive --- Transportation companies --- Transportation industry --- Advanced Road Traffic Systems --- Advanced Transport Telematics --- ATT (Highway communications) --- Intelligent Road Transportation Systems --- Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems --- IRTS (Highway communications) --- ITS (Highway communications) --- IVHS (Highway communications) --- Road Transport Informatics --- RTI (Highway communications) --- Vehicle Information and Communication Systems --- VICS (Highway communications) --- Economic aspects --- E-books --- Locomotion --- Commerce --- Communication and traffic --- Storage and moving trade --- Electronics in transportation --- Highway communications --- Mobile communication systems --- Sociotechnical systems --- Transportation planning --- Intelligent transportation systems. --- Technology & Engineering --- Road transport industries. --- Planning. --- General.