Modeling Approaches to Address Urban Freight's Challenges: A Comparison of the United States and Europe

摘要

The rise in urbanization at a global level has reinforced the need to understand complex city growth patterns and rapidly changing urban systems. These urban environments present special challenges to the movement of people and goods. The flow of freight is essential to the growth and functioning of cities but also contributes to problems such as congestion, air pollution, and degradation of the urban environment. Researchers bring insight to these challenges through their work. Analytical models support a better understanding of urban freight and constitute an important tool in addressing these problems. This paper identifies the problems that urban freight research aims to address in Europe and the United States; provides a better understanding of existing data, analytical tools, and methods; and lays out some gaps and challenges in addressing these problems with existing resources.