Papers

City logistics provides the final and last segments of the physical internet logistics and transportation networks. In this paper, we will present a new scheme for big cities where we imagine the use of most existing public and private infrastructures and means of transportation to deliver encapsulated goods rapidly and safely from origin to destination. In order to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of current transportation systems, we propose with the help of existing different means of transportation and platforms as a city backbone, to determine the optimal localization of urban-hubs and open DCs. For that, we will use the map of transportation lines of Casablanca city (the biggest city, principal port, and economic capital of Morocco) to minimize the maximum travel time (or distance) and ensure a better interconnectivity between nodes. We will also determine some criteria to choose the nodes that can be used as an urban-hubs or DCs.

Using existing means of transportation and platforms intelligently, encapsulated goods will be delivered more efficiently.