The Fifth International Conference on City Logistics (CITY LOGISTICS 2007)

- Visions, Technology and Policy-

Call for papers


Date:

11th July (Wednesday) - 13th July (Friday) 2007

Location:

Crete Island, Greece

Organised by:

Institute for City Logistics


Introduction

Following previous International Conferences on City Logistics that took place in July 1999 in Cairns, Australia, in June 2001 in Okinawa, Japan, in June 2003 in Madeira, Portugal, and in July 2005 in Langkawi, Malaysia, the Fifth International Conference on City Logistics will be held in Crete Island, Greece on 11th - 13th July 2007.

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.


Objectives

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

Topics relating to any area of City Logistics and urban freight transport:

  • Visions for urban distribution systems
  • Cooperative freight transport systems
  • Application of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
  • Public freight terminals
  • Social and economic impacts
  • Environmental impacts
  • Regulation of urban freight transport
  • Modelling
  • Routing and scheduling
  • Policy making
  • Case studies
  • Evaluation techniques
  • Benchmarking and performance indicators
  • Innovative freight technology
  • Public/private partnerships
  • Effects of e-commerce
  • Environmental management systems
  • Planning distribution systems
  • Intermodal interface
  • Network pricing/ Road pricing/ Value pricing
  • Home delivery
  • Monitoring technology
  • Performance based standards
  • Security
  • Construction logistics
  • Logistics for special events
  • Non-road modes for urban freight transport
  • Urban delivery vehicle innovations
  • Passenger and freight transport interrelations
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Waste logistics


Schedule
  • Submission of draft paper (3 pages), 31st October 2006
  • Notice of acceptance of draft paper, 20th December 2006
  • Submission of draft full paper, 28th February 2007
  • Notice of acceptance of final paper, 15th April 2007
  • Submission of revised full paper, 31st May 2007

Individuals 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 2006. 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 20th December 2006. The final paper should be written in English, no longer than 15 pages and should arrive at Kyoto University by 28th February 2007. 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.


Publication

Elsevier Publishing Company will publish the Proceedings of Fifth 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 15th August 2007.

The previous proceedings of 3rd conference, gLogistics Systems for Sustainable Cities,h was published by Elsevier in 2004 and the proceedings of 4th conference, gRecent Advances in City Logisticsh will be published by Elsevier in 2006.


Organising committee
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 (Kyoto University, Japan)
K. Kawamura (University of Illinois, USA)
J. Holguin-Veras(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)


Conference fee

84,000 Japanese Yen (Approximately 600 Euros, or 710 US dollars). This includes:

  1. Participation fee for the conference meetings
  2. Preprint of proceedings that will be provided at the time of conference
  3. Proceedings book (hard cover) which will be published by Elsevier Publishing Company after the conference in 2007
  4. Lunches and conference dinner
  5. Refreshments


Draft paper submission

The 3-page draft paper should be sent by e-mail (citylogistics2007@kiban.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp) in either MS Word file or text file formats. DO NOT send the draft by fax.


Submission of final paper

The final paper should be sent by e-mail (citylogistics2007@kiban.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp) in MS Word file. If you cannot send the final paper by e-mail, please send it 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.


Secretariat and the mailing address of the conference

CITY LOGISTICS 2007
c/o Prof. E. Taniguchi
Department of Urban Management, Kyoto University
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501 Japan
Telephone: +81-75-753-4789, Fax: +81-75-752-5303
E-mail: citylogistics2007@kiban.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Home page: http//www.citylogistics.org/


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