黄庄水库项目宣传策划思路方案.ppt

城市物流外文翻译
外文翻译
原文
City Logistics
Material Source:The Geography ofAuthor:Laetitia Dablanc,
Transport SystemJean-Paul Rodrigue
1. Overview
City Logistics is a relatively new field of investigation brought by the challenges of moving growing quantities of freight within metropolitan areas. It thus concerns urban freight distribution. While cities, particularly since the industrial revolution, have always been important producers and consumers of freight, much of these activities were taking place in proximity to major transport terminals, such as ports and rail yards, with limited quantities of freight entering the city per se. The functional specialization of cities, the global division of production, the rise of service activities as well as increasing standards of living are all correlated with a higher demand for transport and logistics services in cities, a higher frequency of deliveries, and larger quantities of freight ing from, bound to or transiting through urban areas.
City logistics. The process for totally optimizing the logistics and transport activities by panies in urban areas while considering the traffic environment, the traffic congestion and energy consumption within the framework of a market economy.
2. The Diversity of Urban Freight Distribution
Since cities throughout have a different built environment, so are their freight transport and logistics activities. Freight strategies have depended on local economic, geographic, and cultural characteristics. For example, Chicago has been upied with maintaining its role as a major rail hub for North America, and is thus concerned about rail freight movements between the numerous rail terminals located within the city, many of which done by trucks. Los Angeles is primarily concerned with air pollution, and thus targets urban trucking associated with the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Shanghai is ing the largest cargo port in the world and the fact that more than 13% of Shanghai's GD