Models and Measures for Sustainable City Logistics: Behavioral Choice Processes

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 plann