Urban goods movement modelling is a popular subject in urban logistics research. However, most models remain under-used because practitioners have difficulties to apply them to simulate urban policies and their impacts on transport flows, mainly when the assessed situations are different from...

Urban logistics research set off in Europe some fifteen years ago, supported by the funding efforts of the European Commission. The special morphology of European cities, with narrow streets and historical centres which had to be preserved in many cases as world heritage sites, contributed to...

In recent years the field of decision analysis has been heavily influenced by the "analytics'' perspective, which integrates advanced data-mining and learning methods, often associated with increasing access to "Big-Data", with decision support systems. This rapidly growing and very successful...

Users of transport infrastructures nearby hazardous plants may represent important populations potentially impacted by a major accident. Toulouse catastrophe in 2011 has been an illustrative example as it strongly impacted highway users. Therefore, transport infrastructure users (Roads and...

In this paper, a modelling framework to complete the recent scientific works on urban goods modelling is proposed. More precisely, we introduce a substitution procedure that estimates the number of trips and the corresponding travelled distances for shopping drive, home delivery and reception...

L'avènement du e-commerce est là ! Acheter sur internet est devenu bien plus facile, intuitif et surtout moins coûteux qu'en point de vente où le consommateur est stressé et sollicité de toutes parts. De plus, avec la montée en puissance des smartphones et leur capacité à rendre le...

Ce rapport de diagnostic présente l'analyse du projet de lancement d'un site e-commerce commun à deux magasins spécialisés dans le jouet. L'objectif de ce document est d'identifier et d'apporter des éléments de réponse aux enjeux et difficultés spécifiques aux commerçants traditionnels...

Avec l'évolution des technologies, les entreprises doivent s'adapter au nouveau concept de commerce électronique; les clients aussi. Comment garder leur confiance et ce, au bout des doigts. Ce texte présente un cadre conceptuel de la certification de conformité des sites Web ainsi qu'une...