A new concept for urban logistics: Delivery area Booking
Résumé
This paper presents a research project named ALF (Aires de Livraison du Futur, Next Generation Delivery Areas). Its objective is to increase the use of delivery areas by prior booking and dynamic adjustment if necessary. Information technologies with mobile communicating devices and in-roadway sensors are used in front of the information management process system. We present first the problematic and the methodology. The second part discusses about ICT system architecture and human interaction based delivery rounds preparation and real-time adjustment. The third part describes the computational process with a solution based on distributed negotiation, allowing static delivery rounds preparation and their dynamic adjustments, if necessary. The conclusion summarises main configurations of proposed system and lists various innovative services which can be added to delivery areas in order to increase their specificity and allow more efficiency for sustainable development of the cities.