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Logistics Sprawl: Differential Warehousing Development Patterns in Los Angeles, California, and Seattle, Washington
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In this paper, the authors compared the growth in geographic distribution of warehouses in the Los Angeles, California and Seattle, Washington, metropolitan areas during that period, and determined the barycenter, or geographic center of warehousing establishments, as well as the average distance of warehouses to that center.Abstract:
The warehousing industry experienced a period of rapid growth from 1998 to 2009. This paper compares the growth in geographic distribution of warehouses in the Los Angeles, California, and Seattle, Washington, metropolitan areas during that period. These two West Coast cities were chosen because of their geographic spread, proximity to major ports, as well as their size difference. The phenomenon of logistics sprawl, or the movement of logistics facilities away from urban centers, which has been demonstrated in past research for the Atlanta, Georgia, and Paris regions, is examined for the two metropolitan areas. To measure sprawl, the barycenter, or geographic center of warehousing establishments, is determined, as is the average distance of warehouses to that center. The average distance of warehouses to the warehousing barycenter was compared with the average distance from the barycenter for all establishments. Between 1998 and 2009, warehousing in Los Angeles sprawled considerably, with the average distance increasing from 25.91 to 31.96 mi, an increase of more than 6 mi. However in Seattle, the region locations remained relatively stable, showing a slight decrease in average distance from the geographic center. Possible explanations for that difference are discussed.read more
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Logistics sprawl in North America: methodological issues and a case study in Toronto
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The Geography of Logistics Firm Location: The Role of Accessibility
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Urban sprawl and air quality in large US cities
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The impacts of logistics sprawl: How does the location of parcel transport terminals affect the energy efficiency of goods’ movements in Paris and what can we do about it?
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Moving places: the geography of warehousing in the US
TL;DR: This paper examined the changing geography of warehouses in the US between 1998 and 2005 and found that the expansion of warehousing has gravitated towards places with superior accessibility in the nation's air, maritime, rail, and highway transportation networks.