On the path towards sustainability for the urban area, local authorities make decisions that affect freighttransport. However, in many ways, urban freight transport is a neglected issue. The purpose of this paperis to map out the current status of urbanfreight transport research from a local authority perspective. Aliterature review is performed, looking through research in urban freight transport during the last 15 years.The review presents a large amount of references and it is clear that the area ofurban freight transport hasgained a larger interest during the later part of the time period studied. Research mainly focuses on freightmeasures (pilot actions) performed in an urban context, but the local authority perspective is lacking inmany aspects. The review shows some areas that local authorities need to consider when working withfreight transport in the urban area, according to the literature: measures; monitoring and evaluation;performance indicators; transfer of knowledge between cities/countries; and, stakeholder involvement.
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