Usability of Physical Internet characteristics for achieving more sustainable urban freight logistics

Usability of Physical Internet characteristics for achieving more sustainable urban freight logistics: barriers and opportunities revealed by dominant stakeholder perspectives

van Son, C.B.H. (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences)

Tavasszy, L.A. (mentor)
van Duin, J.H.R. (mentor)
van Binsbergen, A.J. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics

2020-08-31

Urban freight logistics currently has to deal with multiple unsustainabilites. Physical Internet characteristics can be promising to make urban freight logistics more sustainable. It was researched if this can be the case and, what opportunities and barriers there are belonging to this change. With Q-methodology different stakeholder perspectives were revealed. This resulted in four different perspectives from which three had a positive attitude towards PI characteristics. One perspective was more moderate in relation to this and stated that a lot is possible already without changes happening. Opportunities and barriers are defined and it was concluded that there is currently no real need to change. Because an increase of national coordinated regulation was also assessed positively a policy framework was created that states individual and collaborative actions for stakeholders. With this 'an environment where efficiency pays off' should be created.

Physical Internet
Urban Freight Logistics
Sustainability
Q-methodology

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Student theses

master thesis

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