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REPORT - Review of UK Urban Freight Studies
J. Allen, M. Browne, T. Cherrett, F. McLeod
This report is based on a review of UK studies in which data has been collected to obtain an
understanding of road-based urban freight transport activities and patterns of operation.
Urban freight remains relatively under researched by comparison with passenger transport
both in the UK and worldwide. However, in the UK there have been a number of studies that
have attempted to investigate road-based freight operations since the 1960s. But no attempt
has been made to draw together the results of these various studies and compare them.
This is what is presented in this report.
The report has studied the results of 30 UK urban freight studies carried out in the last
decade in order to attempt to provide insight into urban freight activities in our towns and
cities. It presents this current knowledge about urban freight transport activities in
the UK from these studies, and compares the similarities and differences between study
findings.
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