Sustainable transport, Passenger transport, freight transport, shared mobility, autonomous vehicles
The Last Mile: Why Does It Have To Be So Problematic?
Long-distance transport of passengers and freight is often efficient, but once in the city all forms of transport face what is known as the ‘last-mile problem’, which in reality is both a last-mile and a first-mile problem. In this issue, contributors examine a wide range of strategies to solve or, at least, reduce this problem.
About this issue
Issue number
Volume 42 – Number 4
Summary
Long-distance transport of passengers and freight is often efficient, but once in the city all forms of transport face what is known as the ‘last-mile problem’, which in reality is both a last-mile and a first-mile problem. In this issue, contributors examine a wide range of strategies to solve or, at least, reduce this problem.
22 Dec 2016
Contents
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Winning the Last Mile
MOSHE GIVONI -
Exploring Last Mile Synergies in Passenger and Freight Transport
Niklas Arvidsson, Moshe Givoni and Johan Woxenius -
Discourses, Travel Behaviour and the ‘Last Mile’ in London
Robin Hickman and Giacomo Vecia -
Cultural Differences in Children’s One Mile Mobility
Rebecca Shliselberg and Moshe Givoni -
Mobility and the Sharing Economy: Potential to Facilitate the First- and Last-Mile Public Transit Connections
Susan Shaheen and Nelson Chan -
Shared Autonomous Vehicles: Catalyst of New Mobility for the Last Mile?
Michael Ohnemus and Anthony Perl -
Car-Free Urban Areas: A Radical Solution to the Last Mile Problem or a Step Too Far?
Miles Tight, Fiona Rajé and Paul Timms -
The Possible Impact of 3D Printing and Drones on Last-Mile Logistics: An Exploratory Study
Alan C. McKinnon
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