THE RANGE OF NEEDS SATISFIED BY THE USE OF URBAN LOGISTICS

Abstract

Urban areas are important centres of entrepreneurship and innovation. Transportation has a
key meaning for the proper functioning of modern urban societies, which is struggling with problems
related to economic activity. To reach their basic goals, cities are facing a task to encourage
entrepreneurs to economic activity; one of the possible ways to achieve this task is to improve the
conditions of freight transport. Solutions from urban logistics are pointed out as a practical way of
improving the transport-logistic systems of modern cities, which struggle with unreasonable structure
of freight, traffic congestion and undesirable influence of transport activities on their environment.