A more efficient delivery for a better accessible city centre. Congestion in Dutch city centres has increased over the last years. Solving the emerged accessibility problems, the accent is on the measures for reducing passenger traffic by road. The contribution of more efficient road haulage deliveries is only partly seen as a way to create a more accessible city centre. This paper assesses the benefits of logistic routes, joined use of bus lanes and reduced accessibility of the city centre by the implementation of time windows. These three measures are looked at in the way they can contribute to more efficient deliveries as well as increased accessibility of the city centre. The constraints for a successful implementation of the measures are looked at from two perspectives: the (public) administrator and the users perspective. The paper concludes with the fact that all three measures can increase the accessibility of city centres, though it is preferred to combine the measures and make them part of an integrated city distribution policy. (Author/publisher)
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