Abstract
The concept of an urban consolidation centre (UCC) has been extensively researched. Despite the potential positive environmental and social impact, the main obstacle remains the lack of a sustainable business model. The goal of this paper is to understand how to organize UCC viability as a concept providing environmental and social benefits while at the same time providing a sustainable business model (social and logistical value propositions of multi-beneficial relations between the involved stakeholders). A research framework will be designed to analyse and evaluate financial viable UCCs. The framework consists of four main stream components, namely: organizational integration, revenue streams, key-resource provisioning and buyer-supplier relation. These four types of relations result in the so called ORKB-framework to analyse the created added value. The research framework is applied and evaluated for the following urban consolidation centres: Regent Street in London, Bristol/Bath, and BinnenStadService in Nijmegen. With the development of the framework we want to reveal some of the uniqueness for each specific situation in order to address the UCC-environment more effectively when the dynamics regarding value creation and the needs of the involved stakeholders are better understood.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 61-80 |
Journal | Transportation Research Procedia |
Volume | 16 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Event | The 2nd International Green Cities Conference on City Logistics: Green Cities - Szczecin, Poland Duration: 2 Mar 2016 → 4 Mar 2016 |
Keywords
- last mile delivery
- Urban consolidation centre
- business modelling