Abstract
Urban consolidation centres (UCCs) have been discussed over many years in city logistics literature. The amount of successful UCCs in the long-run were, and are, very scarce, though. Little is published on the practical issues and experiences of actually running a UCC and offering UCC-services. In the Netherlands, Binnenstadservice (BSS) runs UCCs and UCC services for over a decade now. This contribution discusses development and the experiences of running a UCC in practice in the form of seven lessons, including the evolvement of the business model and organisation model, as well as the development from offering ‘only’ the cross-dock of physical flows, to that of the full triple cross-dock, including financial and information flows. Next, UCCs can be the answer to future challenges, such as zero emission city logistics and fit perfectly in the Physical Internet vision.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on City Logistics |
| Publisher | Institute for city logistics |
| Pages | 125-133 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Event | The 11th International Conference on City Logistics - Valamar Dubrovnik President hotel, Dubrovnik, Croatia Duration: 12 Jun 2019 → 14 Jun 2019 http://citylogistics.org/conference/ |
Conference
| Conference | The 11th International Conference on City Logistics |
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| Country/Territory | Croatia |
| City | Dubrovnik |
| Period | 12/06/19 → 14/06/19 |
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Keywords
- Urban consolidation centre
- city logistics
- business model