ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors focus more specifically on presenting details of some case studies describing how various cities have made specific provision for urban freight in planning or policy areas. These case studies include: New York City, Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, California, Dallas, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana, Melbourne, Australia, Perth, Australia, London, England and Tokyo, Japan. The New York City Garment Centre is a forty block area in lower Manhattan, where, in the early 1970s, some 8,000 firms employed 116,000 workers to produce, sell and transport clothing. In 1972, the Manhattan Garment Centre Project was launched by the City of New York, with financial and technical support from the United States Department of Transportation. The Los Angeles region experiences extensive and costly periods of traffic congestion, and has a major air quality problem, due in part to motor vehicle emissions.
