Towards Sustainable Transport

A Strategic Decision Support System for Urban Logistics Operations

authored by: Maximilian Heumann, Richard Pump, Michael H. Breitner, Arne Koschel, Volker Ahlers
Abstract: Global urbanization for decades has led to unprecedented levels and growing demands for urban logistics. Thus, problems such as congestion, environmental noise, and urban sprawl are growing. As a result, many cities face problems of optimal decision-making regarding green and sustainable smart transportation systems and infrastructures. However, various possible measures and logistics concepts are available to improve urban logistics, while effects are unclear and difficult to predict. To meet the growing need for future-oriented decisions by city authorities, we developed a decision support system prototype that allows a strategic simulation-based evaluation of different logistics concepts regarding defined targets, e.g., pollutant emissions, traffic flow, space requirements, or economic efficiency on a city district level. An expert system for the strategic evaluation of logistics concepts on a city district level is integrated to achieve transferability and scalability.
Organisation(s): Institute of Computer Science for Business Administration
External Organisation(s): University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover (HsH)
Type: Conference contribution
Volume: 1
Pages: 367-381
No. of pages: 15
Publication date: 16.10.2021
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Management Information Systems, Information Systems, Computer Science Applications, Information Systems and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation
Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86790-4_25 (Access: Closed)