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Weiwen Zhou, Elise Miller-Hooks and Sagar Sahasrabudhe
Increasing popularity in gig employment has enabled the use of an at-will workforce of self-contracted couriers to participate in many service industries serving urban areas. This gig workforce has come to play a particularly important role in the growin...
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Inês A. Ferreira, Catarina Bento, Luís Mascarenhas, Carina Pimentel and Helena Carvalho
The number of variants of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) has grown rapidly in the last decades. Among these, VRPs with time window constraints are among the most studied ones. However, the literature regarding VRPs that concerns the delivery and insta...
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Kai Gutenschwager, Markus Rabe and Jorge Chicaiza-Vaca
Fast growing e-commerce has a significant impact both on CEP providers and public entities. While service providers have the first priority on factors such as costs and reliable service, both are increasingly focused on environmental effects, in the inte...
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Angie Ramirez-Villamil, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres and Anicia Jaegler
Studies that use rivers in a last-mile delivery context are scarce. This research considers the first multimodal alternative based on a barge for parcel delivery activities. It proposes two sustainable network designs for a two-echelon distribution. The ...
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Shahryar Sorooshian, Shila Khademi Sharifabad, Mehrdad Parsaee and Ali Reza Afshari
Last-mile delivery (LMD) is essential in supply chains, and providers of logistics services are aware that they must adapt to changing customer and society expectations, competition challenges, and modern technologies. In light of the importance of artif...
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Markus Rabe, Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu, Jorge Chicaiza-Vaca and Rafael D. Tordecilla
The introduction of automated parcel locker (APL) systems is one possible approach to improve urban logistics (UL) activities. Based on the city of Dortmund as case study, we propose a simulation-optimization approach integrating a system dynamics simula...
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Miroslaw Moroz, Zdzislaw Polkowski
Pág. 378 - 393
The dynamic development of electronic commerce is affecting the manner of the organization of urban logistics. The last mile issue, that is the problem of the final stage of delivery of a parcel to a recipient, appears in full in urban areas. The problem...
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Song Liu, Ying Liu, Rongrong Zhang, Yongwang Cao, Ming Li, Bahram Zikirya and Chunshan Zhou
Hive Box is a company that operates a network of express unattended collection and delivery points (UCDPs) in China. Hive Box distribution enhances community-based end-to-end delivery services and low-carbon city logistics. It is argued that UCDPs compar...
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Xiaohong Jiang, Huiying Wang and Xiucheng Guo
The advent of e-commerce has led to a rapid acceleration of rural logistics development in China. To enhance green and sustainable development of rural logistics, it is necessary to improve the service quality of the rural last mile delivery and analyze ...
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Thomas Hoffmann and Gunnar Prause
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Faheem Ahmed Malik, Laurent Dala, Muhammad Khalid and Krishna Busawon
This paper develops an intelligent real-time learning framework for the last-mile delivery of mobility as a service in city planning, based upon safe infrastructure use. Through a hybrid approach integrating statistics and supervised machine learning tec...
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Stanislaw Iwan, Kinga Kijewska, Justyna Lemke
Pág. 644 - 655
Last mile deliveries are one of the major effectors of heavy traffic of commercial vehicles in the whole city area. Due to e-commerce's generic specificity, its functioning on B2C market is based on home deliveries. In recent years very interesting and p...
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Raphaëlle Ducret, Bernard Lemarié, Alain Roset
Pág. 301 - 313
Confronted with the issues of the ?last mile?, delivery providers have to adapt their logistics organization in cities for more economic and environmental efficiency and in order to meet consumer requirements. A better and systematic use of the providers...
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Tamás Bányai
Supply chain solutions are based on first-mile and last-mile deliveries; their efficiency significantly influences the total cost of operation. Drone technologies make it possible to improve first-mile and last-mile operations, but the design and optimiz...
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Daqing Wu and Chenxiang Wu
Due to the diversity and the different distribution conditions of agricultural products, split delivery plays an important role in the last mile distribution of agricultural products distribution. The time-dependent split delivery green vehicle routing p...
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Zuopeng Xiao, James J Wang, James Lenzer, Yonghai Sun
Pág. 985 - 998
Since final distribution plays a significant role in the e-commerce logistics chains, it has drawn many stakeholders? attention and different solutions have been proposed to enhance the last-mile logistics. This is particular true in China, where the fin...
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Stephanus Daniel Handoko, Hoong Chuin Lau
Pág. 777 - 786
A recent exploratory study on the collaborative urban logistics in Singapore suggests that cost reduction and privacy preservation are two main drivers that would motivate the participation of carriers in consolidating their last mile deliveries. With Si...
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Cristina Pronello, Cristian Camusso, Rappazzo Valentina
Pág. 888 - 899
The paper aims at investigating the needs of three sets of stakeholders ? retailers and HoReCa, transport operators and local authorities ? aimed at designing a dynamic and participatory platform of services and applications for the optimisation of the l...
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Uwe Clausen, Christiane Geiger, Moritz Pöting
Pág. 1533 - 1542
Since 1995 the freight transport performance within Europe has increased annually by 1.2% and is expected to grow further over the coming decades. Being the sources and sinks of transport activities, Europe's cities are strongly affected by the resulting...
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Justyna Lemke, Stanislaw Iwan, Jerzy Korczak
Pág. 272 - 287
The growth of B2C e-commerce market results in the increase of importance of last mile deliveries in the city area. Due to e-commerce's generic specificity, functioning of the deliveries in e-commerce on B2C market is based on home deliveries. Due to inf...
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