Herold, David Martin. 2019. Don’t blame parcel delivery vans for clogging up city traffic, look to the tradies. The Conversation, 25.09.19
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Abstract
A rise in online shopping is often blamed for an increase in the number of parcel delivery vehicles clogging up our busy city roads. But a study we at Vienna University carried out for a European postal service found parcel delivery vehicles made up only a fraction (0.8%) of a city’s traffic flow. Tradespeople and other services were more than seven times more likely to be making up the business traffic. Yet the claim that parcel delivery plays a significant part in urban road traffic is used regularly in reports. Hopefully our study can help to change the attitude.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Magazine/newspaper article |
Language | English |
Title | Don’t blame parcel delivery vans for clogging up city traffic, look to the tradies |
Title of journal | The Conversation |
Year | 2019 |
Date | Sept. 25, 2019 |
URL | https://theconversation.com/dont-blame-parcel-delivery-vans-for-clogging-up-city-traffic-look-to-the-tradies-123776 |
Associations
- Projects
- City Logistics in Vienna: The impact of courier-, express- and parcel (CEP) service providers on urban road traffic
- People
- Herold, David Martin (Details)
- Organization
- Institute for Transport and Logistics Management (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5332 Transport economics (Details)
- 5333 Business management (Details)
- 5354 Business logistics (Details)
- 5368 Sustainable development, sustainable economics (Details)