The European Commission has recently developed a growing awareness with respect to the challenges urban freight transport (UFT) poses to cities and, consequently, has started defining specific policies and promoting dedicated tools to address them. Transport is a shared responsibility between...

This editorial introduces the special issue on 2Urban Freight, land use planning and public administration strategies". In the first part, it describes the rationale for the special issue and motivates the choice of focusing on land use planning and public administration strategies in the urban...