Cargo cycles for local delivery in New York City: Performance and impacts

Conway, Alison; Cheng, Jialei; Kamga, Camille; Wan, Dan

doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2017.07.001

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“…Goods reception solutions includes articles focusing on self-service technologies [4,30], collection and delivery points [31,32], unattended home deliveries [33], or the comparison of different solutions [34][35][36]. Innovative vehicle solutions refers to articles focusing on electric vehicles [37,38], bicycles [39], tricycles [40], drones [41], and comparison of different vehicle solutions [42,43]. Emerging business models incorporate articles focusing on business models emerging for last mile logistics, especially crowd logistics [44][45][46], and the mix of different business models [47].…”

Section: Themes In Last Mile Logisticsmentioning

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Framework of Last Mile Logistics Research: A Systematic Review of the Literature

2019

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Coincident with the rapid growth of omni-channel retailing, growing urbanization, changing consumer behavior, and increasing focus on sustainability, academic interest in the area of last mile logistics has significantly increased. The growth in academic publications has been tremendous, with three out of four articles appearing within the past five years. The influx of research spans multiple disciplines and various methodologies, underlining the complexity and fragmentation of last mile logistics research, which leads to a lack of unity in the understanding of the concept. We provide a systematic review and classification of the literature to provide a more coherent view of last mile logistics research. The review covers 155 peer-reviewed journal publications focusing on last mile logistics. Findings demonstrate that the literature embraces a diversity of aspects and facets that are classified into five themes: emerging trends and technologies, operational optimization, supply chain structures, performance measurement, and policy. Further, we propose a framework of last mile logistics literature that comprises five components and their interrelationships, namely, last mile logistics, last mile distribution, last mile fulfillment, last mile transport, and last mile delivery. The results provide a foundation for further development of this research area by proposing avenues for future research.

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“…The results of the study indicate that a fleet with different technologies can potentially reduce the cost of the last mile. [38,69,71]; cargo cycles [39,40,67,68]; comparison of vehicle alternatives [18,37,42,43]; drones [70]; intermodal high capacity transport [72] 13 New perspectives on collaboration Emerging business models…”

Section: Last Mile Transportmentioning

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Framework of Last Mile Logistics Research: A Systematic Review of the Literature

2019

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“…Diesel vans are dominant when the required number of tricycles increases considerably due to capacity constraints or lengthy travel distances. Case studies on the introduction of electric cargo-bikes and their environmental impacts in some regions such as China [36][37][38][39], Europe [40,41], Italy [42,43], and New York [44] have been reported.…”

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A Courier Service with Electric Bicycles in an Urban Area: The Case in Seoul

2019

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Various factors must be considered when running a courier service in an urban area, because the infrastructure of a city differs from those in suburban or countryside areas. Of note, population density is higher, and vehicles encounter greater restrictions. Moreover, air pollution from fossil fuel combustion is more severe. As tailpipe emissions are becoming costly to both corporations and the environment, researchers are increasingly exploring more appealing transportation options. Electric bicycles have become an important mode of transportation in some countries in the past decade. Electric bicycles and automobiles have their respective merits and demerits when used to provide courier services. E-bikes in particular can ply their trade in densely packed areas that are off-limits to cars and trucks. This paper focuses on (1) developing a truck–bike mixture model to reduce operating costs for an existing truck-only service by replacing some of the trucks with bicycles, and (2) exploring the resulting effects in terms of reducing overall carbon emissions. Data from one of the major courier companies in South Korea were utilized. The problem was tackled as a heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem using simulated annealing because the actual size of the problem cannot be solved directly with a mathematical approach. The most effective fleet mix was found for the company’s case. Effects on operating costs and reduced emissions were analyzed for 15 different scenarios with varying demands and off-limits areas. Computational results revealed that the new model is viable from economic and sustainability standpoints. They indicated that costs decrease to varying degrees in all scenarios, and that carbon emissions also decrease by around 10% regardless of the selected scenario.

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“…The end result of this study shows the load of bicycles as a city-scale shipping alternative that provides the benefits of a competitive environment and long-distance shipping options in crowded cities such as NYC. [10] Constraints on package delivery are not only related to congestion and shipping costs, but also because of the difficulty of delivering faster but the right delivery in an unreliable and dynamic environment. The article made by Zhang et al in 2018, intends to answer the question of how people perceive by changing the distribution of the last mileage by bicycle or using pickup points.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Cargo Bikes in Transit Oriented Development: Concept and Route Clustering

Syam¹,

Prasetya²

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 1st International Conference on Engineering and Management in Industrial System (ICOEMIS 2019)

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The increasing growth of the e-commerce market makes the savings of the last mile shipping compete with each other to provide third-party logistics services with the type of shipping and competitive prices. The existence of Cargo bikes in Jakarta city has been popular since 2013 pioneered by the West Bike Messenger Service (WMS) community which provides bicycle shipping services in several areas in Jakarta. Integration of rail transportation modes combined with cargo bikes can provide opportunities for this system to develop from a local scale or a regional scale to a city scale. This study will provide the concept of urban logistics in the TOD areas with bikes. The use of sweep algorithm combined with Center of Gravity (COG), produce cluster delivery routes in three TODs with different characteristics. TOD with the character U1 (Fatmawati) has 9 clusters, U2 (Cipete) has 6 clusters, and 7 clusters are owned by TOD with character R (Blok M).

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Cargo cycles for local delivery in New York City: Performance and impacts

Cited by 48 publications

References 21 publications

Framework of Last Mile Logistics Research: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Framework of Last Mile Logistics Research: A Systematic Review of the Literature

A Courier Service with Electric Bicycles in an Urban Area: The Case in Seoul

Cargo Bikes in Transit Oriented Development: Concept and Route Clustering

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