City Logistics and Smart Cities: Models, Approaches and Planning

Dear Colleagues,

City logistics aims to optimize the logistics and the transport activities in urban areas, considering their interaction with other traffic components with the support of new technologies. These activities must consider the sustainability and livability of the urban context (e.g., environmental impacts, safety). The issues connected with the recent increase in online purchases, also influenced by COVID-19, posed new problems to solve and new challenges to face. Therefore, it emerges that city logistics require the development of integrated and dynamic solutions, for example, those based on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and intelligent transport systems (ITSs). To support these solutions, simulation models, design approaches, and planning must be implemented. The aim is to identify, simulate, and optimize all the activities that characterize city logistics and its impacts on the city.

Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to gather new research in this field, considering the challenges resulting from the use of new technologies. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Discrete models in city logistics;
• Planning urban freight distribution;
• City logistics management and control;
• Travel cost and learning processes;
• Vehicle routes optimization in urban areas;
• Forecasting end consumer choices;
• Forecasting urban freight flows;
• ICTs and ITSs for city logistics;
• Analysis of the impacts of city logistics;
• Green vehicles;
• Shopping trips;
• New services for city logistics (crowd shipping, parcel lockers, etc.)

Dr. Antonio Polimeni
Dr. Orlando M. Belcore
Guest Editors

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