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How is own account transport well adapted to urban environments?

Cruz, Cecilia - HAL - 2010

Own account transport is commercially invisible but its importance in urban freight is significant: it represents half of deliveries. Generally research efforts focus mainly on third-party transportation because data is more available in spite of a lack of urban data. Nevertheless, the...

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End consumer goods movement generation in French medium urban areas

Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus; Toilier, Florence; Routhier, … - HAL - 2010

End-consumer movements, defined as the movements made by the consumer transporting the purchased goods, are identified with shopping trips. Whereas the logistics movements (freight distribution and urban part of the supply chain) are well studied in city logistics and urban planning, the...

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The two-echelon capacitated vehicle routing problem

Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus; Perboli, Guido; Tadei, Roberto; … - HAL - 2008

Multi-echelon distribution systems are quite common in supply-chain and logistic systems. They are used by public administrations in their transportation and traffic planning strategies as well as by companies to model their distribution systems. Unfortunately, the literature on com- binatorial...

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The last food mile concept as a city logistics solution for perishable products

MORGANTI, Eléonora; Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus - HAL - 2014

This paper analyzes last mile logistics for fresh food products and the food deliveries schemes to urban food outlets, i.e. corporate retail chains, independent retailers and hotel, restaurants and catering (Ho.Re.Ca.) sector. We present two concepts: that of food hub and that of last food mils,...

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Urban food planning and transport sustainability: A case study in Parma, Italy

Morganti, Eleonora - HAL - 2011

Nowadays local authorities try to solve problems related to the environmental sustainability of the cities through various urban logistics measures, which directly and indirectly affect the urban food supply system. This paper presents an ongoing research on the urban food transport system and...

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Are City Logistics Solutions Sustainable? The case of Cityporto

Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus; Morana, Joelle - HAL - 2011

City logistics is a field that studies the best solutions for urban freight distribution with high environmental objectives. However, most actions are started by public authorities without taking into account the impacts of the new organizational schemas in the existing distribution enterprises'...

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Are City Logistics Solutions Sustainable? The Cityporto case

Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus; Morana, Joelle - HAL - 2010

Urban logistics is a field that studies the best solutions for urban freight distribution with high environmental objectives. However, most actions are started by public authorities without taking into account the impacts of the new organizational schemas in the existing distribution...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791795

Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …

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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …

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Urbanism, an overview

Palma, André De; Guimard, Alexandre - HAL - 2014

Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to …

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