Streets & Urban logistics

STREETS & URBAN LOGISTICS – This research presents the findings of a design research project on the impact of urban logistics on street design. The research began with the key question: how is urban logistics influencing streets? The growing demand for last-mile deliveries, together with the densification of many urban areas, is reshaping the topic – potentially leading to more conflicts in the public space. It is therefore essential to understand its logic and spatial impact.
This book showcases the variety and complexity related to the new challenges and demands of urban logistics, from the angle of liveable streets. It provides an overview of a broad spectrum of urban logistics and its spatiality: at the level of the neighbourhood, the street, and its components.
The book is structured in three chapters. The first chapter, Urban Logistics, unfolds the variety of all kinds of urban logistics, the vehicle types, the demanded spaces, the various logistic systems, and their position on the street. The methodology presented in the following chapter, Urban Plans & Logistics, demonstrates how urban logistics can be taken into account in urban planning processes, and how it can be mapped, in numbers and drawings. The last chapter, Street Design, presents a design toolbox to support the integration of urban logistics in a balanced manner at the street level.

RESEARCH – This research presents the findings of a design research project on the impact of urban logistics on street design. The research began with the key question: how is urban logistics influencing streets? The growing demand for last-mile deliveries, together with the densification of many urban areas, is reshaping the topic – potentially leading to more conflicts in the public space. It is therefore essential to understand its logic and spatial impact.
This book showcases the variety and complexity related to the new challenges and demands of urban logistics, from the angle of liveable streets. It provides an overview of a broad spectrum of urban logistics and its spatiality: at the level of the neighbourhood, the street, and its components.
The book is structured in three chapters. The first chapter, Urban Logistics, unfolds the variety of all kinds of urban logistics, the vehicle types, the demanded spaces, the various logistic systems, and their position on the street. The methodology presented in the following chapter, Urban Plans & Logistics, demonstrates how urban logistics can be taken into account in urban planning processes, and how it can be mapped, in numbers and drawings. The last chapter, Street Design, presents a design toolbox to support the integration of urban logistics in a balanced manner at the street level.

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