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From page 224... ... 224 10.1 The City of Paris's Logistics Land-Use Plan Land-use and transportation agencies in most urban and metropolitan areas do not sufficiently consider freight in their regional planning. Without government intervention, logistics facilities tend to locate outside of urban areas to avoid high land prices and pushback by local communities, leading to environmental and systemic inefficiencies when making deliveries to cities. Read the entire page →
From page 225... ... Case Studies 225 these large multimodal sites are being developed as logistics hotels. ese sites are multistory, mixed-use complexes that can include multimodal logistics terminals, oce space, and housing (Dablanc 2017a) Read the entire page →
From page 226... ... 226 Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools Source: (IFSTTAR 2018) Figure 25. Read the entire page →
From page 227... ... Case Studies 227 allocated prime urban spaces for logistics facilities. As shown in the figure, one of these facilities is very near the Notre Dame Cathedral. Read the entire page →
From page 228... ... 228 Planning Freight-Efcient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools In response to the increasing land costs, the inherent challenges associated with urban operations, and the tax incentives oered by City of Yumbo, manufacturers and logistics operators started to relocate from Cali to Yumbo. In the 1940s, Yumbo had around 100 small to medium industry establishments. Read the entire page →
From page 229... ... Case Studies 229 considered banning the freight thru traffic which, ironically, was created directly or indirectly by their predecessors' failures to implement a metropolitan vision for the Cali region. Essentially, for their own seemingly sensible reasons, the city leaders of Yumbo and Jamundí pursued development agendas that complemented each other to aggravate the problem. Read the entire page →
From page 230... ... 230 Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools As a result, prime land that could have been used for consumer-oriented businesses that need the visibility provided by the highway, has been used by industrial and logistics activities that could have been located further back, without materially impacting their operations. The example of Route 9 in Clifton Park, New York provides a contrasting example. Read the entire page →
From page 231... ... Case Studies 231 The port handled 3.6 million imported TEUs and a total of 5.2 million TEUs in 2018 (Logistics Management 2019) Read the entire page →
From page 232... ... 232 Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools establishments are in SIS, consistent with the large number of governmental and other servicerelated establishments within the U.S. capital. Read the entire page →
From page 233... ... Case Studies 233 The team selected the threshold of 10% after experimenting with other thresholds and concluding that 10% provided the most consistent results. In addition, the average distance between the zip codes identified as part of the economic pole(s) Read the entire page →
From page 234... ... 234 Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools in Table 16. Los Angeles MSA exhibits the most dispersed urban form, with the longest average distance between economic poles for all measures. Read the entire page →
From page 235... ... Case Studies 235 MSA. The team's conclusion is that the interaction index and employment density produce the most consistent results, though the interaction index has the edge because of its ability to consider the role of physical separation. Read the entire page →
From page 236... ... 236 Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools (1) Manufacturing, (2) Read the entire page →
From page 237... ... Case Studies 237 The purpose of this application of the BMS-FELU is to provide insights on the effects that facility location could produce in urban areas. The BMS-FELU -- first developed as part of the New York City Off-Hour Delivery project -- simulates freight tours, together with the series of stops where a single freight vehicle makes pickups or deliveries, based on information about a given geographical area. Read the entire page →
From page 238... ... 238 Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools which usually can be done in either large or small trucks and include multiple stops. The large to small echelon accounts for 33% of trips and 32% of the VMT, while the small to small echelon accounts for 16% of trips and 14% of VMT. Read the entire page →
From page 239... ... Case Studies 239 -2% -1% 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% Gateways to Large Large to Large Large to Small 3.09% 4.08% 3.15% 2.72% 2.89% 2.78% 0.47% -1.02% -0.32% Pe rc en t c ha ng e in fr ei gh t v eh ic le m ile s tr av el ed d ue to v ar io us c as es DC in Amsterdam DC in Colonie Relocation of DC Figure 31. Differential effects on freight VMT for NAICS 42. Read the entire page →
From page 240... ... 240 Planning Freight-Efcient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools Figure 32. Trip distribution for large establishments after relocation of distribution center in Amsterdam (left) Read the entire page →

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... 224 10.1 The City of Paris's Logistics Land-Use Plan Land-use and transportation agencies in most urban and metropolitan areas do not sufficiently consider freight in their regional planning. Without government intervention, logistics facilities tend to locate outside of urban areas to avoid high land prices and pushback by local communities, leading to environmental and systemic inefficiencies when making deliveries to cities.