Crowd logistics: an opportunity for more sustainable urban freight transport?

Abstract Purpose Passenger car occupancy has been falling for years. Partly empty vehicles on our road networks decrease passenger transport sustainability but also contain an opportunity for freight transport. Within Crowd logistics (CL), delivery operations are carried out by using passengers’ exc...

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Main Authors: Heleen Buldeo Rai, Sara Verlinde, Jan Merckx, Cathy Macharis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-07-01
Series:European Transport Research Review
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12544-017-0256-6