Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
France 2012 ). In order to be efficient, these two axes of change will have to
converge towards new interfaces, new equipments for urban logistics which are
fundamental back-ups to balance the new forms of the supply chains.
5.2.3 Sustainable Vision and Promotion of the Public Sector
Public and private actors are today aware of the necessity to act rapidly and to
anticipate the next logistics organizations that will emerge for an efficient and
acceptable urban supplying. This bet relies on the obligation to preserve an eco-
nomic and social equilibrium in the different spaces of the city-centres while
reducing the induced nuisances. It is now for public authorities to define the frame
of intervention and its limits, that is why a political promotion is essential.
The capacity of local authorities to preserve and anticipate urban zones that
answer the new challenges of proximity, mutuality, multimodality, set by ever
more complex consuming behaviours, is a critical point and brings on the fore-
ground the stakes of coordination between urban policies at a conurbation or even
at a regional scale. This suggests a strategic approach of territorial balance and real
estate management.
In order to have the benefit of a competitive urban logistics system, it is
decisive to integrate and associate every actor of the public and private sector in
the work of reflection for new goods distribution organizations. The performance
of the system will be linked to the capacity of the actors to cooperate. Hence, the
interest of urbanism in logistics is to conciliate urban planning and urban logistics
for mobility schemes, space consumption and visual impact. This measure is even
more important considering that logistics activities that were driven out of the
cities towards peripheral areas during the 80s, are now trying to settle back in
dense urban areas since 2000, with the obligation to reduce their costs while
maintaining high levels of service for their clients.
Taking into account the needs in logistics spaces upstream of the urban plan-
ning process is thus fundamental: goods distribution systems have the same right
to exist in cities as water, energy or telecommunication distribution systems. If not,
adapting logistics to cities will only be made possible by using -and wasting-
massive financial and material means. In a close future, urban planners will have to
face this unavoidable challenge.
References
Ambrosini C, Boudouin D, Dablanc L, Dufour JG, Fritsche JF, Morel C, Ollivier C, Patier D,
Ripert
C,
Routhier
JL
(1998)
Plans
de
déplacements
urbains,
prise
en
compte
des
marchandises, guide méthodologique. Certu-Ademe, Lyon
Ambrosini C, Routhier JL (2004) Objectives, methods and results of surveys carried out in the
field of urban freight transport: an international comparison. Transp. Rev. 24(1):57-77
Search WWH ::




Custom Search