The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state of the art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics. The COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in internet shopping in particular has placed new demands on urban logistics which require innovative technological and policy responses.

Jason Monios is Professor of Maritime Logistics at Kedge Business School, Marseille, France. His research revolves around three key areas: maritime transport (port system evolution, collaboration and integration in port hinterlands, port and shipping governance and policy, institutional and regulatory settings), intermodal transport (corridors, dry ports, terminal development, business models and logistics strategies, also including urban logistics) and sustainability and environmental concerns (maritime sustainability, decarbonisation and environmental policy, green ports, climate change adaptation, autonomous and electric vehicles). He has led numerous research projects on these topics with a total budget of over 1 m and contributed to many others. He has worked with national and regional transport authorities and authored technical reports with UNCTAD, UN-ECLAC and the World Bank. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including 7 books. The most recent Stanford/ Elsevier ranking placed him in the top 2% of logistics researchers globally, and in 2022, his work on climate change adaptation was cited in the IPCC report.

Lucy Budd is a human geographer and Professor of Transport Management at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, UK. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Research in Transportation Business and Management and is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Transport Geography, the Journal of Air Transport Management, the Journal of Transportation Planning and Technology, Transport Policy and Transport Reviews. Her research interests comprise aspects of urban transport policy and operations, including equity and sustainability. She has published over 100 papers and edited 14 books in the area of transport management.

Stephen Ison is Professor of Transport Policy in Leicester Castle Business School at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has published widely in the area of economics and transport policy. He has edited, authored or co-authored twenty books, and published over 140 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the World Conference on Transport Research, Founding Editor of the journal Research in Transportation Business and Management (Elsevier), Associate Editor of Transportation Planning and Technology and book series co-editor of Transport and Sustainability (Emerald). He is on the Editorial Board of Transport Policy and Transport Economics and Management.