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Efficient Green Logistics in Urban Areas: Milk Run Logistics in the Automotive Industry
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2012
Sustainable Transport for Chinese Cities
In this paper, the potential of Milk Run logistics, a type of consolidation, is analyzed. Milk Run provides a host of possibilities of consolidating freight transport activities and thus using transport capacity efficiently. Milk Run logistics utilizes one vehicle to conduct several pick-ups/deliveries in a round trip, so that the pick-up/delivery points should be located in a limited area which one-day trip could cover at least. Although this area should not necessarily be urban, Milk Run
doi:10.1108/s2044-9941(2012)0000003017
fatcat:27dvzmsgb5azjcftnwrsry5poi