"This book presents fundamental concepts and general approaches to City Logistics. - City Logistics is the process of totally optimising urban logistics activities by considering the social, environmental, economic, financial and energy impacts of urban freight movement. - City Logistics initiatives are required to solve urban freight transport problems including high levels of traffic congestion, negative environmental impacts, high energy consumption and a shortage of labour. - "The focus of this work is on modelling City Logistics. Modelling is of crucial importance, since estimates of the impacts by City Logistics measures are required for evaluating them. - It highlights the formulation of mathematical models of vehicle routing and scheduling with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), optimal terminal locations and impact estimation by City Logistics measures. - Heuristics techniques such as genetic algorithms simulated annealing and tabu search are also given to identify approximate optimal solution of these combinatorial optimisation problems. - "ITS provides powerful tools for efficiently managing and operating vehicle fleets. - Sophisticated logistics systems can now be developed by integrating Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with application software. - In this context, the book presents a theoretical and practical treatment of modelling City Logistics based on ITS. - "The models described in this book will provide essential tools for researchers and city planners for evaluating City Logistics policies and measures to help solve urban freight problems."--BOOK JACKET