The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state of the art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics. The COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in internet shopping in particular has placed new demands on urban logistics which require innovative technological and policy responses.

Jason Monios is Professor of Maritime Logistics at Kedge Business School, Marseille, France. His research revolves around three key areas: maritime transport (port system evolution, collaboration and integration in port hinterlands, port and shipping governance and policy, institutional and regulatory settings), intermodal transport (corridors, dry ports, terminal development, business models and logistics strategies, also including urban logistics) and sustainability and environmental concerns (maritime sustainability, decarbonisation and environmental policy, green ports, climate change adaptation, autonomous and electric vehicles). He has led numerous research projects on these topics with a total budget of over EUR1 m and contributed to many others. He has worked with national and regional transport authorities and authored technical reports with UNCTAD, UN-ECLAC and the World Bank. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including 7 books. The most recent Stanford/ Elsevier ranking placed him in the top 2% of logistics researchers globally, and in 2022, his work on climate change adaptation was cited in the IPCC report.

Lucy Budd is a human geographer and Professor of Transport Management at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, UK. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Research in Transportation Business and Management and is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Transport Geography, the Journal of Air Transport Management, the Journal of Transportation Planning and Technology, Transport Policy and Transport Reviews. Her research interests comprise aspects of urban transport policy and operations, including equity and sustainability. She has published over 100 papers and edited 14 books in the area of transport management.

Stephen Ison is Professor of Transport Policy in Leicester Castle Business School at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has published widely in the area of economics and transport policy. He has edited, authored or co-authored twenty books, and published over 140 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the World Conference on Transport Research, Founding Editor of the journal Research in Transportation Business and Management (Elsevier), Associate Editor of Transportation Planning and Technology and book series co-editor of Transport and Sustainability (Emerald). He is on the Editorial Board of Transport Policy and Transport Economics and Management.

Introduction

1. Introduction to urban logistics: key challenges and current debates

Jason Monios, Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison

2. The role of urban logistics in the city economy

Michael Browne and Sam McLeod

A. Transport Modes

3. Road transport and urban logistics

Maja Piecyk and Julian Allen

4. The use of rail and water in urban logistics

Allan Woodburn

5. Cycle logistics: Sustaining the last mile

Jonathan Cowie and Keith Fisken

6. Drones: The scope for integration into multi-modal urban logistics services

Matt Grote, Andy Oakey, Aliaksei Pilko, Angela Smith and Tom Cherrett

7. Integrating freight and passenger transport for urban logistics

Silvio Nocera, Francesco Bruzzone and Federico Cavallaro

B. Urban Logistics Sectors

8. Parcel deliveries as a pioneer for climate neutrality: the case of Ecozone in Mechelen (Belgium)

Koen Mommens and Cathy Macharis

9. Urban logistics and retailing

Leigh Sparks

10. Dark stores as a post-pandemic omnichannel strategy: implications for urban logistics

Heleen Buldeo Rai

11. Food logistics

Eleonora Morganti

12. Healthcare and urban logistics

Liz Breen, Sarah Schiffling and Ying Xie

13. Construction and urban logistics

Russell G. Thompson, Oleksandra Osypchuk and Stanislaw Iwan

C. Technical Analysis

14. Facility locations in urban logistics

Takanori Sakai, Adrien Beziat and Adeline Heitz

15. Multi-echelon urban distribution networks: models, challenges, and perspectives

Imen Ben Mohamed, Olivier Labarthe, Yann Bouchery, Walid Klibi and Gautier Stauffer

16. Computing technology and its applications in urban logistics

Lóránt Tavasszy and Hans Quak

17. Small containers for evolving logistics in changing cities

Michael G. H. Bell, Veronica Schulz and Shengda Zhu

D. Policy

18. Policy and planning for urban logistics

Laetitia Dablanc

19. Policy acceptability and implementation in urban logistics

Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta and Ila Maltese

20. The role of road pricing and incentives in urban logistics management

Oriana Calderón, José Holguín-Veras and Stephen Ison

21. Urban consolidation centres

Emine Zehra Akgün and Jason Monios

22. Success factors for urban logistics pilot studies

Andisheh Ranjbari, Anne Goodchild and Elizabeth Guzy

E. Sustainability

23. Climate change and urban logistics

Maria Attard

24. Decarbonising road freight and alternative fuels for urban logistics

Genevieve Giuliano and Sue Dexter

25. Urban logistics in the Global South

Nora Mareï

26. Urban logistics in megacities

Quan Yuan and Zhiwei Yang

27. The gig economy and urban logistics

Geraint Harvey, Naveena Prakasam and Refat Shakirzhanov

28. Gender diversity in urban logistics

Anicia Jaegler, Salomée Ruel, Nadine Kafa and Lucy Budd

29. Post-pandemic impacts of COVID-19 on urban logistics

John R. Bryson