Prof. Teodor Gabriel Crainic - Universitè du Quebec prof.ssa Maria Elena Bruni - Università della Calabria The series of lectures will focus on the planning of the supply side of City Logistics systems and the main Operation Research methods proposed to design the system (strategic planning) and its service network (tactical and operational planning), emphasizing the modelling aspects and pointing to algorithmic challenges and new developments.

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Urban freight transport means goods carried into, out of, and within urban areas. It is both a core component of the logistic activities answering the demand raised by the economic and social activities of the city, and a vital link between suppliers and customers situated both within the city limits and elsewhere in the world. Efficient urban freight transport and logistics are thus major enabling factors for city life and development. They are also, however, major disturbing factors to urban life in terms of congestion, pollution, safety, and security. The "new" organization and business models known as City Logistics (CL) aim to address this opposition. CL is often described as an integrated multi/intermodal logistics system based on cooperation among stakeholders, resource sharing, consolidation, and synchronization of operations. Operations Research (OR) provides the methodology to design and deploy the advanced planning and management decision-support systems needed to account for the complexity of integrated CL systems, address the associated challenges, and reach the goal of sustainable activities through service, economic, and environmental efficiency. The series of lectures will focus on the planning of the supply side of CL systems and the main OR methods proposed to design the system (strategic planning) and its service network (tactical and operational planning), emphasizing the modelling aspects and pointing to algorithmic challenges and new developments. Main topics: • Lecture 1. City Logistics, goals and types, planning levels and issues, OR contribution; • Lecture 2. Design of CL systems: location, location-routing, ... ; • Lectures 3 & 4. Design of CL services: Service network design for consolidation-based carriers; service network design and routing; multi-echelon routing, ...; • Lecture 5. Design of last/first kilometer CL services: vehicle routing, pickup and delivery, ... • Lecture 6. Integrating new technology: drones, electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, ...

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