Logistics Efficiency in Urban Areas: Part 2

摘要

Birgit Hendriks began by showing slides in Dutch from Henk Diepenmaat because she wanted to pique attendees' interest about his work. His slides showed freight movements from medieval times. In modern times, she said, we need to solve the collateral damage issues of freight movement and need a multiactor process for management. Actors cannot only make decisions within their own systems, because that is only one level. Researchers and companies need to talk to each other and build a new system together. Freight transportation needs to satisfy three needs: to be both effective and efficient but also to take societal needs into account. Thus, Hendriks urged, political actors need to be involved, too, and not just U.S.-EU actors, but other stakeholders as well.