The City Logistics Research Group of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics is led by Dr. Krisztián Bóna and is operated on the Faculty of Transportation and Vehicle Engineering, within the Department of Material Handling and Logistics. The fruitful work of the group is further assisted by one bachelor, and two master's logistics engineering students. By the work of the Research Group, in recent years numerous successful SRS (Student Research Societies)-papers, bachelor and master thesis works, conference presentations, and professional publications have been prepared, along with making students able to complete their project-based subjects by elaborating the topics of the Research Group. The work of the Research Group targets different areas of city logistics.In our earlier work we examined brownfield areas, the possibility of using the city's own tramway and suburban railway system for goods transportation, optimizing the system of urban loading areas, developing complex cost structures, and multiple-stage city logistics systems. On top of that, the Research Group took part in elaborating Budapest's city logistical system improvement conceptions. Our currently highlighted subject is called Innovative modeling and sizing methods of supply systems of urban concentrated sets of delivery points. Based on this topic, we are working on multiple publications, projects, and we are preparing conference presentations.We are also examining the possibility of using drones, urban railways, and waterways in the service of supplying the city, or setting intelligent urban loading areas.
City Logistics Research Group
Research keywords:
· city logistics
· urban logistics
· shopping mall
· market
· cargo bike
· drone delivery
Horizon Europe keywords:
· Cities and communities
· Clean and healthy air, water and soil
· Green social innovations
· Smart and sustainable transport and mobility
· European Green Deal
Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering Department of Material Handling and Logistics Systems
H-1111 Budapest, Bertalan Lajos utca 7-9. Building L
+3614631111/5744
Introduction of the Research Group
The City Logistics Research Group of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics is led by Dr. Krisztián Bóna and is operated on the Faculty of Transportation and Vehicle Engineering, within the Department of Material Handling and Logistics. The fruitful work of the group is further assisted by one bachelor, and two master's logistics engineering students. By the work of the Research Group, in recent years numerous successful SRS (Student Research Societies)-papers, bachelor and master thesis works, conference presentations, and professional publications have been prepared, along with making students able to complete their project-based subjects by elaborating the topics of the Research Group. The work of the Research Group targets different areas of city logistics.In our earlier work we examined brownfield areas, the possibility of using the city's own tramway and suburban railway system for goods transportation, optimizing the system of urban loading areas, developing complex cost structures, and multiple-stage city logistics systems. On top of that, the Research Group took part in elaborating Budapest's city logistical system improvement conceptions. Our currently highlighted subject is called Innovative modeling and sizing methods of supply systems of urban concentrated sets of delivery points. Based on this topic, we are working on multiple publications, projects, and we are preparing conference presentations.We are also examining the possibility of using drones, urban railways, and waterways in the service of supplying the city, or setting intelligent urban loading areas.
Achievements
- Development of new city logistics concepts (road, cargo bike, urban railway, urban waterway and drone deliveries)
- Participation in the Developments of the city logistics in Budapest, Development of concepts and documentation
- Introducing the concept of urban concentrated sets of delivery locations, thus providing a new basis for the grouping of urban delivery locations (eg a shopping centre, a shopping street or a market is a concentrated set of delivery locations, where the demands are concentrated in a relatively small urban area, providing good Development opportunities)
- Development and adaptation of city logistics models and cost models
- compiling and filling a database on the Budapest city logistics system (detailed survey of urban stores, suppliers and urban areas, collection of basic modeling data)
- Modeling of the city logistics system of the urban concentrated sets of delivery locations: building mathematical models of the current and potential new city logistics systems, building and applying microscopic and mesoscopic simulation models to the Budapest system, building topological models for the study of shopping areas , developing and applying mathematical models of the cost structure)
- Development, description and simulation modeling of a cargo bike-based city logistics concept based on a geometric model of the urban freight network structure, application of the simulation model to Budapest shopping centers
- Development of a ranking model to measure the city logistics Development level of urban areas and to identify the city logistics Development potentials in urban areas, application of the model to Budapest
- Developing new concepts for the development of urban loading bays and cross docks
- Investigation of the potential for the introduction of urban waterway- and railway-based deliveries in the logistics system of Budapest city, Development of ranking models
Publications
Bálint Mészáros, Dávid Lajos Sárdi, Krisztián Bóna, PhD. Monitoring, measurement and statistical analysis (MMSA) based methodology for improving city logistics of shopping malls in Budapest (2017). World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research, 2017 Vol.6, No.4, pp. 352 – 371. URL: http://www.inderscience.com/offer.php?id=88913, ISSN: 1749-4729, DOI: 10.1504/WRITR.2017.10009827Krisztián Bóna, PhD, Ádám Róka, Dávid Lajos Sárdi. Mathematical Modeling of the Cost Structure of the Logistics System of Shopping Malls in Budapest (2018). Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering 46(3), pp. 142-150. URL: https://pp.bme.hu/tr/article/view/12073/7998, ISSN: 0303-7800, DOI: 10.3311/PPtr.12073
Krisztián Bóna, Dávid Lajos Sárdi.Mesoscopic simulation model of the logistics system of concentrated sets of urban delivery locations (2021). International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling Vol. 16, No. 2., pp. 116-129. URL: http://www.inderscience.com/offer.php?id=115865, ISSN 1740-2123, DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2021.115865
Krisztián Bóna, Dávid Lajos Sárdi. A geometrical structure-based new approach for city logistics system planning with cargo bikes and its application for the shopping malls of Budapest (2021). Applied Sciences, 11 (8), 3300 (Special Issue Intelligent Mobility in Smart Cities). URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/8/3300, ISSN 2076-3417, DOI: 10.3390/app11083300
Dávid Lajos Sárdi, Krisztián Bóna, PhD. AHP-Based Multicriteria Ranking Model for the City Logistics Analysis of Urban Areas (2021). 10th International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Sciences (LISS2020), Beijing, online. Editors: Liu S., Bohács G., Shi X., Shang X., Huang A. Springer, Singapore. pp. 45-60. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-981-33-4359-7_4, ISBN: 978-981-334-358-0, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-4359- 7_4
Journals
Applied Sciences (Basel), Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering, International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, IEEE Smart Cities Symposium Prague, I3M International Conference on Harbour, Maritime & Multimodal Logistics Modeling and SimulationProjects
- Opportunities for the development of city logistics services in Hungary to support the price transparency of large cities (JKL-P8-T1), Research University program 25.09.2010 - 25.12.2011, with the support of the Hungarian State
- EFOP-3.6.3-VEKOP-16-2017-00001, 01.09.2020 - 28.02.2022., with the support of the Hungarian State and the European Union, co-financed by the European Social Fund (research topics: Application of drones in city logistics systems for urban concentrated sets of delivery locations; Development of the technological concept of drone mini-hubs in city logistics systems for urban concentrated sets of delivery locations; Application of intelligent devices in urban shared loading facilities; Addressing the challenges of loading technology and loading management in inner-city areas in future city logistics systems; Building models to identify and estimate the potential of freight transport solutions supporting the supply of concentrated sets of delivery locations by drones)
Conferences
Smart Cities Symposium Prague 2017, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-26 May 2017, Krisztián Bóna PhD and Lajos Dávid Sárdi (speakers);Smart Cities Symposium Prague 2018. Prague, Czech Republic, 24-25 May 2018, Krisztián Bóna PhD and Lajos Dávid Sárdi (speakers)
The 21th International Conference on Harbor, Maritime & Multimodal Logistics Modeling and Simulation, Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 September 2019, Krisztián Bóna PhD and Lajos Dávid Sárdi (speakers)
MLBKT (Hungarian Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory Management) Congress, 2019, Siófok, 13-15 November 2019, Smart urban supply chains 2020+ for sustainability, Krisztián Bóna PhD and Lajos Dávid Sárdi (session organization and participation)
5th ASEM Transport Ministers' Meeting (ASEMTMM5), Budapest, Vigadó, 10 December 2019, Krisztián Bóna PhD and Lajos Dávid Sárdi (speakers)
10th International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Sciences (LISS2020), Beijing, online, 27 July 2020, Krisztián Bóna PhD and Lajos Dávid Sárdi (speakers)