When cities are growing in both size and complexity, the freight distribution and management make a significant contribution for transportation management. Freight transportation execution is one of the main sectors that is looked into when planning. The concept of city logistics explicitly tries to optimize the urban transport network and many optimization approaches have been introduced to optimize the vehicle routing methods considering several objectives. Since recent times, there is drawing attention for two-echelon freight consolidation modelling efforts. This paper will review the available literature under the city logistics modelling, and two-echelon freight consolidation identifying the perspectives adhered. The study was conducted through a systematic review of literature using multiple studies published under the area of city logistic modeling and two-echelon-distribution modelling in through key word base search in understanding of city logistic modelling efforts, and identifying performance parameters used for freight analysis within city networks and concluding with the findings. It was evident that there is a lack of modelling efforts in two-echelon vehicle routing for city logistic combining with optimization models for multiple objective handling and modeling uncertainty.