This final programme may change without any notice.

Day 1 (27th June 2001, Wednesday)

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 11:00

Opening session
Welcome

E. Taniguchi and R.G. Thompson

Review paper presentation

Recent advances in modelling city logistics

E. Taniguchi, R. G. Thompson and T. Yamada

E-commerce and city logistics

J. Visser, T. Nemoto and J. Boerkamps

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break (Demonstration of software for vehicle routing and scheduling)

11:30 - 12:20

Session A (Modelling 1) (Moderator: U. Kohler )

Intermodal transportation for short distances - chances for a waste collection system?

R. van Duin and H. van Ham

Simulation as a supporting tool for multidisciplinary design of underground freight transport systems

C. Versteegt, A. Verbraeck and S. Geerdes

12:20 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:15

Session B (Modelling 2) (Moderator: R. van Duin)

Modelling the effects of e-commerce

R. G. Thompson, C. Chiang and M. Jeevapatsa

Dynamic vehicle routing and scheduling with real time information

E. Taniguchi, T. Yamada and M. Tamaishi

Realistic application of ITS based probabilistic vehicle routing and scheduling

E. Taniguchi, Y. Kanazaki, M. Yoshii and S. Nishimura

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee break (Demonstration of software for vehicle routing and scheduling)

15:45 - 17:25

Session C (Modelling 3) (Moderator: R. G. Thompson)

Co-operative vehicle routing model with optimal location of logistics terminals

T. Yamada, E. Taniguchi and Y. Itoh

Why don't multi-carrier joint delivery services in urban areas become popular? A gaming simulation of carriers' behaviour

H. Ieda, A. Kimura and Y. Yin

A study on the improvement of home delivery systems and the effect of introducing a new measure in a concentrated high-rise residential area

N. Ashida, W. Takeda and S. Kashima

Methodology and results of a study on logistic schemes in Siena

M. P. Valentini, P. Lacquaniti, and G. Valenti

17:25 -

Welcome drink

Day 2 (28th June 2001, Thursday)

9:00 - 10:15

Session D (Planning 1) (Moderator: E. Taniguchi)

City-logistics in Germany

U. Kohler

Clustering of transportation logistics centres in urban areas

K. Button, R. Kulkarni and R. Stough

Logistics for city planning

H. Knoflacher

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee break (Demonstration of software for vehicle routing and scheduling)

10:45 - 12:00

Session E (Planning 2) (Moderator: J. Visser)

State-of-the-art of city logistics in the Netherlands: Research framework and research activities

J. Boerkamps

Conceptual study on urban freight transport policy planning from the viewpoint of logistics

H. Kuse and J. Castro

Governance and institutional change: Freight transportation planning in the New York region

J. Holguin-Veras and R. E. Paaswell

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:45

Session F (Planning 3) (Moderator: T. Nemoto)

Underground logistics systems for goods distribution in urban areas: Perspectives in the Netherlands

J. Visser

Comparison of traffic and environmental load of freight transport -Bangkok and Tokyo

H. Ieda, K. Sano, K. Takahashi, A. Fukuda, V. Srisurapanon and Y. Kaneko

The new concept of floating car system for city logistics

K. Meguro, T. Sugiura, H. Fujii and K. Aoki

14:45 - 15:15

Coffee break (Demonstration of software for vehicle routing and scheduling)

15:15 - 16:30

Session G (Planning 4) (Moderator: T. Yamada)

Service-related vehicle activity in urban areas

S. Anderson, J. Allen and M. Browne

An experiment to demonstrate the effectiveness of on-street parking facilities for delivery vehicles

M. Odani and T. Tsuji

Overview and first results of the European BESTUFS thematic network

D. Wild

16:30 - 16:40

Closing session

Concluding remarks

E. Taniguchi

19:00 -

Conference dinner
(Restaurant “Fanuan” in the Busena Terrace Hotel)

Day 3 (29th June 2001, Friday)

Tour to Minna Island.