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The movement of goods the potential to contribute of awareness, understanding
within urban areas is vital since towards achieving the goals and overall vision to urban
cities are the centre of economic of urban transport. The sector goods movement. In addition,
and social life. Cities are now is also facing a number of lack of information and flow
facing global competition for challenges such as congestion, on urban goods movement,
investment and trade where parking for deliveries and fragmentation nature of
an efficient transport system reverse logistics (e.g. recycling stakeholders, inertia of the
is necessary for sustained and garbage collection). Some public agencies and gaps in
economic prosperity. The of the factors which act as skills and knowledge are also
explicit consideration of barriers to sustainable urban contributory factors leading to
urban goods movement has goods movement are the lack neglect of urban freight sector.
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