Analysis of benefitis of urban logistics space to urban goods movements

Abstract

The urban freight transport is responsible for the city’s consumption chain, being a key factor on urban development, despite all related conflicts and problems. In this context, this paper presents an analysis of the implementation of an Urban Logistic Space as an intermediate step in the urban goods distribution, using freight vehicle and electric tricycles. Therefore, a transport network for the central region of the city of Belo Horizonte was developed through Transcad®. An applicative for location and routing was utilized to locate the urban logistic space and get delivery routes among the distribution center, this space and the final customer. The results indicate that operational costs, distance traveled, the number of vehicles and emissions are reduced with the implementation of an Urban Logistic Space, providing benefits to urban mobility.