Maja Kiba-Janiak

A Comparative Analysis of Sustainable City Logistics among Capital Cities in the EU

The main aim of the paper is a comparative analysis of sustainable city logistics among capital cities in the EU. In order to conduct the study the Electre III/IV method has been applied. The author has developed indicators on the basis of European statistics, national statistics of EU countries, various reports and projects. Due to the lack of data this analysis is limited to a certain extent. The Electre III/IV method allowed the author to develop the ranking of capital cities in terms of selected economic, environmental and social aspects of city logistics.

A Methodology of Redesigning and Evaluating Medium-Sized Public Transportation Systems

The chapter presents a generic methodology of carrying out a comprehensive redesign of a public transportation system. The proposed paradigm can be applied by municipal authorities (local governments) and management of urban transportation systems to upgrade local transportation. The authors propose two major stages of this methodology: 1. A heuristic construction of the public transportation system redesign variants/scenarios; 2. Multiple criteria evaluation of these scenarios. In the first stage 6 redesign concepts of the public transportation system are developed. The variants are constructed heuristically, based on “common sense”, best practices and authors’ expert knowledge in the field. In the second stage, the evaluation of redesign scenarios is defined as a multiple criteria ranking problem. A consistent family of criteria is defined, preferences of the decision maker (DM) and stakeholders are identified and modeled, and finally computational experiments are performed. In the computational phase selected Multiple Criteria Decision Making/Aiding (MCDM/A) methods, such as: AHP and ELECTRE III/IV are applied. The analysis is carried out based on a real world case study in a medium sized city in Poland. The generated results are compared with the intuitive decisions made by the officers of the local Town Hall.

Modeling Transportation Preferences of Urban Residents: The Case of Poland

The paper presents the application of selected methods of multivariate statistical analysis including factor and conjoint analyses in terms of modeling transportation preferences of urban residents. The introduced methodologies can be useful tools for local authorities while designing solutions in order to improve the competitiveness of public transport to private transport. The results of the studies presented in the article are part of the research project implemented in 2010–2013 under a title. “Reference model of city logistics and the quality of life”. For the study undertaken in this paper, three medium-sized cities, located in the western part of Poland, were selected.