Integrated, sustainable planning of urban logistics - a joint system of objectives

Urban logistics is increasingly facing the need to transform its system design in urban areas. Not just the global megatrends of urbanization and global warming, but also severe local challenges of each city like high levels of congestion and a critical air pollution are forcing municipalities and logistics service providers (LSP) to reconfigure layout, means of transport, nodes and the service design [1] of the logistics systems within a city. Nevertheless LSPs are playing a dominant role in this respect, municipalities and corresponding stakeholders are highly influencing this planning by centralized urban planning and decentralized stakeholder individual actions, shaping the urban form in which logistics takes places and is determined by.