The Sixth International Conference on City Logistics (CITY LOGISTICS 2009)

- Vision, Technology and Policy-

Call for papers


Date:

30th June (Tuesday) - 2nd July (Thursday) 2009

Location:

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

The Westin Resort and Spa, Puerto Vallarta

Organised by:

Institute for City Logistics


Introduction

Following previous International Conferences on City Logistics that took place in: July 1999 in Cairns, Australia, June 2001 in Okinawa, Japan, June 2003 in Madeira, Portugal, July 2005 in Langkawi, Malaysia, and July 2007 in Crete, Greece, the Sixth International Conference on City Logistics will be held at gThe Westin Resort and Spa, Puerto Vallartah in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on 30th June ? 2nd July 2009.

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 at increasing the efficiency of urban freight transport systems as well as reducing traffic congestion and impacts on the environment. However, new visions, technologies, and policy measures need to be developed and studied 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, technologies and policy measures that facilitate the deployment of various 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. Also, an overview of the development and application of several mathematical models and effects of e-commerce on urban freight transport will be given. The conference also provides an opportunity 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
  • Hazardous material transport


Schedule
  • Submission of draft paper (3 pages), 31st October 2008
  • Notice of acceptance of draft paper, 20th December 2008
  • Submission of draft full paper, 28th February 2009
  • Notice of acceptance of final paper, 15th April 2009
  • Submission of revised full paper, 31st May 2009

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 2008. 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 2008. The final paper should be written in English, no longer than 15 pages and should arrive at Kyoto University by 28th February 2009. 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

NOVA Science Publishing Company will publish the Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on City Logistics after the conference, providing the authors the opportunity to revise their papers, incorporating the discussions during the conference meeting. The revised final paper should be submitted to the secretariat no later than 15th August 2009.

The previous proceedings of the 3rd conference, gLogistics Systems for Sustainable Cities,h was published by Elsevier in 2004 and the proceedings of the 4th conference, gRecent Advances in City Logisticsh was published by Elsevier in 2006. The proceedings of the 5th conference gInnovations in City Logisticsh will be published by NOVA Science Publisher in 2008.


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

The conference fee is 84,000 Japanese Yen (Approximately 510 Euros, or 800 US dollars as of 1st May 2008). 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 NOVA Science Publishing Company after the conference in 2010
  4. Lunches and conference dinner
  5. Refreshments


Draft paper submission

The 3-page draft paper should be sent by e-mail (citylogistics2009@kiban.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp). DO NOT send the draft by fax.


Submission of final paper

The final paper should be submitted by e-mail. 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.


Outstanding paper award

The organising committee will select papers that are of outstanding excellence submitted by PhD candidates or young researchers for the Outstanding Paper Award.


Secretariat and the mailing address of the conference

CITY LOGISTICS 2009
c/o Prof. E. Taniguchi
Department of Urban Management, Kyoto University
Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8540 Japan
Telephone: +81-75-383-3229, Fax: +81-75-950-3800
E-mail: citylogistics2009@kiban.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Home page: http//www.citylogistics.org/


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