Systematic literature review on city logistics: overview, classification and analysis

Abstract

City logistics is one of the significant branches of supply chain management, dealing with the logistics and transportation activities in urban areas. This research area has recently appropriated an exponential growth of publications. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis along with a systematic literature review to organise the results of surveying more than 370 papers and research works published since 2010. We identify the top contributing research topics. The most common keywords used in the city logistics literature are referred to in order to propose six research categories identifying the main innovative research perspectives.

Keywords:

• city logistics
• urban logistics
• bibliometric analysis
• systematic literature review
• literature classification

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Supplemental data for this article can be accessed here https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2018.1489153