Urban Freight Transportation Systems offers new insights into the complexities of today's urban freight transport system. It provides a much needed multidisciplinary perspective from researchers in not only transportation, but also engineering, business management, planning and the law. The book examines numerous critical issues, such as strategies for delivery, logistics and freight transport spatial patterns, urban policy assessment, innovative transportation technologies, urban hubs, and the role factories play in the urban freight transport system. The book offers a novel conceptual approach for addressing the problems of production, logistics and traffic in an urban context. As most of the world's population now live in cities, thus significantly increasing commercial traffic, there are numerous challenges for efficiently and sustainably delivering goods into cities. This book provides solutions and tactics to those challenges.

Ralf Elbert untersucht, wie alle Akteure in Unternehmen die Wertsteigerung als Handlungsprinzip verfolgen konnen. Durch ein qualitatives Experiment in der Logistik wird deutlich, dass die Logistiker durch die Adaption des von ihm entwickelten Ethnocodes der Sprache der Wertsteigerung in Form des VALUESCORECARD-Konzepts tatsachlich wertsteigernde Handlungspraktiken produzieren und reproduzieren konnen.
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