Delivering the goods
Subtitle: 21st century challenges to urban goods transport.
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Working Group on Urban Freight Logistics.
Series: Transport; Transport (Paris, France).
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris, France
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Freight and freightage -- OECD countries.; Consumer goods -- Transportation.; Urban transportation -- OECD countries.
Other titles: 21st century challenges to urban goods transport; Twenty-first century challenges to urban goods transport; Transport urbain de marchandises
Description: Relatively little has been done by governments to facilitate the essential flows of goods in urban areas and to reduce the adverse impacts of urban goods transport on the communities served. This has resulted in increasing problems associated with goods delivery including competition with passenger transport for access to road infrastructure and space for parking/delivery facilities. How should OECD countries deal with the challenges they face in this area? This report analyses measures taken in many cities and provides recommendations for dealing with these challenges.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Prepared by the OECD Working Group on Urban Freight Logistics.
Also published in French under title: Transport urbain de marchandises.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Ch. 1. Introduction; title: Ch. 2. Developments in urban freight logistics; title: Ch. 3. Approaches to efficient urban goods transport; title: Ch. 4. Actions needed: the wider picture; title: Annex 1. Members of the OECD Working Group on Urban Freight Logistics; title: Annex 2. Highlights of practices in member countries; title: Annex 3. Tool kit of possible measures; title: Annex 4. Examples of measures implemented or planned in member countries; title: Annex 5. Data available in member countries.