ABSTRACT
Because city logistics considers a broad range of benets and costs for both the public and private sectors, evaluation of city logistics schemes involves consideration of a wide set of issues relating to the problems they are intended to solve. Within the systems approach to city logistics (Taniguchi et al., 2001), evaluation involves the methodical comparison of the predicted consequences of schemes, based on a set of predetermined criteria. Evaluation is conducted before implementation (ex-ante)
7.1 Introduction 101 7.2 Identifying Problems 103 7.3 Setting Goals and Objectives 104 7.4 Dening Criteria 106 7.5 Predicting Performance 108 7.6 Measuring Performance 109 7.7 Pilot Tests 111 7.8 Concluding Remarks 112 References 112
to aid the identication of the best option to be put into operation. This is generally done when schemes are too expensive to rene or abandon after implementation.
