SYSTEMS THEORY, COMPLEXITY AND SUPPLY ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS TO ENRICH CITY LOGISTICS: AN APPROACH

摘要

This paper establishes a connection between systems theory and logistics presenting a city logistics model in order to enrich the available frameworks to study city systems. The proposed model uses two wide variables: relative entropy when applied to city systems and the number of food selling points that can be observed in the same city system. With this model one can easily classify city systems, obtaining four major categories: modern-dispersed, modern-incomplete, traditional-complete and mixed city systems.