  Urban Traffic is recognized as one of the major CO2 contributors that puts a
high burden on the environment. Different attempts have been made for reducing
the impacts ranging from traffic management actions to shared-vehicle concepts
to simply reducing the number of vehicles on the streets. By relying on
cooperative approaches between different logistics companies, such as sharing
and pooling resources for bundling deliveries in the same zone, an increased
environmental benefit can be attained. To quantify this benefit we compare the
CO2 emissions, fuel consumption and total delivery time resulting from
deliveries performed by one cargo truck with two trailers versus by two
single-trailer cargo trucks under real conditions in a simulation scenario in
the city of Linz in Austria. Results showed a fuel consumption and CO2
emissions reduction of 28% and 34% respectively in the scenario in which
resources were bundled in one single truck.
