25th June (Wednesday) - 27th June (Friday) 2003
Madeira Regency Palace Hotel, Madeira, Portugal
http://www.regency-hotels-resorts.com/UK/palace/index1.html
Institute for City Logistics
Following the First and Second International Conferences on City Logistics that took place in July 1999 in Cairns, Australia, and in June 2001 in Okinawa, Japan, the Third International Conference on City Logistics will be held in Madeira Island, Portugal.
Urban freight transport has become an important issue in urban planning. There are many challenges and problems relating to increasing levels of traffic congestion, environmental impacts and energy conservation. In addition, freight carriers are expected to provide higher levels of service with lower costs. To address these complicated and difficult problems, numerous City Logistics schemes have been proposed and implemented in several cities, including: cooperative freight transport systems, advanced information systems, public freight terminals and the regulation of load factors. City Logistics schemes are relatively new concepts that are aimed increasing the efficiency of urban freight transport systems as well reducing traffic congestion and impacts on the environment. However, new visions, technology and policy measures are required before City Logistics schemes can be effectively deployed.
This conference aims to provide an opportunity to exchange knowledge, experience and perspectives on City Logistics and urban freight transport. Recent developments in creating visions, technology and policy measures of City Logistics schemes will be discussed. Since City Logistics schemes have already been implemented in several cities, a review of the performance of these schemes will also be presented. As well, an overview of the development and application of several mathematical models and effects of e-commerce on urban freight transport will be given. It is also planned to discuss future initiatives of the Institute for City Logistics that are aimed at promoting international research collaboration and information exchange.
Topics relating to any area of City Logistics and urban freight transport:
Submission of draft paper (3 pages), 31st October 2002
Notice of acceptance of draft paper, 30th November 2002
Submission of draft full paper, 28th February 2003
Notice of acceptance of final paper, 15th April 2003
Submission of revised full paper, 31st May 2003
Persons wishing to present a paper at the conference are invited to submit a 3-page draft paper to the secretariat of the conference no later than 31st October 2002. The draft paper should state clearly in English, the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. The selection of papers will be undertaken by the organising committee based on the draft paper and authors will be notified regarding the acceptance of their paper for presentation at the conference by 30th November 2002. The final paper should be written in English, no longer than 15 pages and should arrive at Kyoto University by 28th February 2003. Acceptance of papers for publication in the conference proceedings will depend on the final full-length paper as well as payment of the conference registration fee.
Elsevier Publishing Company will publish the proceedings book gLogistics systems for sustainable citiesh, Proceedings of Third International Conference on City Logistics after the conference. Therefore, authors can revise their paper incorporating discussions during the conference meeting. For that case, the revised final paper should be submitted to the secretariat no later than 31st July 2003.
Chairperson
E. Taniguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
R.G. Thompson (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
M. Browne (The University of Westminster, UK)
T. Nemoto (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
J.G.S.N. Visser (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
R. van Duin (Delft University of Technology)
D. Wild (PTV, Germany)
T. Yamada (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Approximately 84,000 Japanese Yen (650 Euros, 700 US dollars). This includes:
The 3-page draft paper should be sent by online submission systems in the web site (Online Submission Form) in either MS Word file or text file formats. If you cannot send the draft paper by online submission systems, please send it by e-mail ( citylogistics@kiban.luciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp) or airmail. DO NOT send the draft by fax.
The final paper should be sent by online submission systems in the web site (Online Submission Form) in MS Word file. If you cannot send the final paper by online submission systems, please send it as a hard copy and in electronic form on a floppy disk or CD-ROM by airmail. DO NOT send the final paper by Fax, since the proceedings will be published as a book (hard cover). The guidelines for preparing the final paper will be sent to authors with notification regarding acceptance of their paper.
CITY LOGISTICS 2003
c/o Prof. E. Taniguchi
Department of Civil Engineering Systems, Kyoto University
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501 Japan
Telephone: +81-75-753-4789, Fax: +81-75-753-4788
E-mail:
citylogistics@kiban.luciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Home page: http//www.citylogistics.org
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