An intelligent platform for supporting optimized collaborative urban logistics

Abstract

Optimized urban logistics is an important issue for rapidly growing cities worldwide. Many criteria can be optimized in order to improve the performance of urban logistics. Economic and time dependent criteria are central but not the only ones; lately, sustainable criteria are becoming key and urgent due to new regulations and environmental concern of governments and the society. In this work we review the state of the art of intelligent developments and techniques that might aid to build smart and optimized urban logistic applications. Moreover, we propose a prototype platform conceived as a supporting and facilitating layer for the growing business of last mile delivery (LMD) companies that operate in cities in an isolated way. Our vision is to provide a cooperative intelligent platform that provides coordination and collaboration services for the LMD companies of urban areas.