Location of an Urban Distribution Center

Nowadays, urban freight transport has become a generator of nuisance and contributes to traffic congestion. For decades, several research works have treated the urban distribution center (UDC), as a solution to this problem. The objective of our article is to propose an approach for the location of UDCs to optimize the total distance. In this work, we will present the deployment of these UDCs and we will analyze their possible problems. We will propose a review of the literature on location methods as well as the evaluation of its economic performances. And then we will do modeling on the Flexsim to see its impact on urban logistics. Subsequently, we will describe the solution that allows it, where we have developed two new specific algorithms; the grid method and the center of gravity method. This combination of methods has given us a good result. Then we finished with an example and comparative analysis between two cases, one with UDC and the other without seeing the effect of this implantation, which reflects the blessed side of this implantation.