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Multi-actor multi-criteria analysis for sustainable city distribution: a new assessment framework

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  • Lauriane Milan
  • Bram Kin
  • Sara Verlinde
  • Cathy Macharis

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Urban areas are facing several challenges, especially to organise freight transport in a sustainable way. Many innovative city distribution concepts have failed because not all stakeholders were taken into account in the decision-making process. Evaluating urban freight solutions summons the need for a new approach, taking into consideration different conflicting objectives from different stakeholders. Within STRAIGHTSOL (strategies and measures for smarter urban freight solutions, EC FP7), a systematic impact assessment framework dedicated to freight transportation has been developed. The so-called city distribution - multi-actor multi-criteria analysis (CD-MAMCA) incorporates the city distribution actors and their objectives as the primary focus complemented with a MCDA performed with the PROMETHEE-GDSS method. In this paper, the specific framework dedicated to city distribution is fully explained through a case study in the UK charity sector with Oxfam which tested remote monitoring of the banks leading to dynamic collection scheduling.

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  • Lauriane Milan & Bram Kin & Sara Verlinde & Cathy Macharis, 2015. "Multi-actor multi-criteria analysis for sustainable city distribution: a new assessment framework," International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(4), pages 334-354.
  • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcdm:v:5:y:2015:i:4:p:334-354
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    Cited by:

    1. Ying Zhou & Weiwei Li & Pingtao Yi & Chengju Gong, 2019. "Evaluation of City Sustainability from the Perspective of Behavioral Guidance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(23), pages 1-17, November.
    2. Nicolas Brusselaers & Koen Mommens & Cathy Macharis, 2021. "Building Bridges: A Participatory Stakeholder Framework for Sustainable Urban Construction Logistics," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-33, March.
    3. Shary Heuninckx & Cathy Macharis & Geert te Boveldt & Thierry Coosemans, 2023. "Evaluating the Potential of MAMCA as a Framework for Stakeholder Engagement during the Setup of Energy Communities," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(10), pages 1-21, May.

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