A two-level, AHP-based ranking model for the city logistics analysis of urban areas and its application for the concentrated sets of delivery locations in Budapest
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Urban freight transport is a significant challenge nowadays because of its high impact on the sustainability of cities, and the pandemic has further increased the importance of these challenges in the last one and a half year, which has generated new challenges for urban logistics by changing the customer demands. Based on previous research results, it became clear that a ranking methodology would be very useful for city logistics projects, which makes it possible to evaluate the current city logistics state and future city logistics development potentials of urban zones to select the best zones for developments, which would be significant for the city logistics aspects of urban planning and logistics system planning as it could help to avoid selecting development and pilot areas based on limited information only. Previously, we developed a complex ranking system to handle this need. This article presents an improved version of this ranking model, which handles the criteria under consideration in a two-level system by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In our article, we are presenting the results of the literature review and the novelty of our research, then we will describe our previous results regarding the model development, our actual objectives, the two-level multi-criteria ranking model itself, its structure, the ranking criteria, the application of the ranking model in the city logistics system of the concentrated sets of delivery locations in Budapest (Hungary), and the results of a complex sensitivity analysis. The main result of our article is a complex city logistics ranking methodology, which can help future city logistics projects and developments to define those urban areas where the city logistics system should be developed and is possible to implement developments.
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