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Urban freight transport is frequently censured for its unsustainable impacts. Although our current urbanized civilization requires an efficient freight transport system in order to sustain it, the common perception is that urban freight transport has negative impacts on all sustainability issues: social, economic and environmental (also known as the triple P: people, profit and planet). Urban freight transport, or urban goods movement, is identified as having the following unsustainable effects on:

● people, such as the consequences of traffic accidents, noise nuisance, visual intrusion, smell, vibration and the consequences of (local) emissions, such as NOx and PM10, on public health;● profit, such as inefficiencies (especially for carriers) due to regulations and restrictions, congestion and reduced city accessibility;● the planet, such as the contribution of transport to global pollutant emissions (CO2) and the consequences …