interventions had preceded academic publication in this field, this database provided a comprehensive but parallel inventory for the grey literature review process.
The field in which the review was carried out and renewed many times, lay in the enquiry into and about the role of compulsion in the setting up and operating of urban consolidation centres. Initial reading and personal insight had revealed this to be variously defined as ‘urban logistics’, ‘city logistics’, and/or also ‘urban freight’. Searching for ("urban freight" or "urban logistics" or "city logistics") in abstracts in the WOS reported 2,204 records as of 10/5/20227. The papers were published in fields largely related to transportation, management, urban studies, and environmental studies as shown in Figure 2 below.
Figure 9: Domains associated with Urban Consolidation Centres (UCCs), Wed of Science
It was apparent that this field was novel and, over recent years, the number of publications and citations had risen sharply: suggestive of a field of research emergent in academic research.
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