Connected shared mobility for passengers and freight: Investigating the potential of crowdshipping in urban areas

Marcucci, Edoardo; Pira, Michela Le; Carrocci, Céline Sacha; Gatta, Valerio; Pieralice, Eleonora

doi:10.1109/mtits.2017.8005629

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“…Marcucci et al [30] investigate the necessary pre-requisites a crowdshipping service needs to satisfy so to be attractive within the highly competitive urban freight delivery market. The exploratory investigation focuses on 200 university students in the city of Rome.…”

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Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries

Gatta

Marcucci

Nigro

et al. 2019

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Cities crave innovative logistics solutions dealing with the requirements of the 'on demand economy'. The paper estimates the willingness to act as a crowdshipper (supply) and to buy a crowdshipping service (demand) to get goods delivered/picked-up in the last mile B2C e-commerce situation. Specifically, it innovates by considering an environmental-friendly crowdshipping based on the use of the mass transit network of the city where parcels customers/crowdshippers pick-up/drop-off goods in automated parcel lockers located either inside the transit stations or in the surroundings. This issue is very important since "standard" crowdshipping is usually not able to reduce congestion and polluting emissions due to the dedicated trips performed using private motorized vehicles. The paper rests on an extensive stated preference survey. The hypothetical scenarios used to acquire both demand (customers') and supply (crowdshippers') preferences make use of the most relevant attributes emerging from a preliminary investigation performed in the study context. The investigation is performed in the city of Rome and the metro is the transit system considered. The results are useful in understanding and quantifying the potential of this freight transport strategy for e-commerce in an urban context and in providing local policy makers with a good knowledge base for its future development.

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confidence: 99%

Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries

Gatta

Marcucci

Nigro

et al. 2019

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“…They are particularly useful in an initial phase of a decision-making process to perform a preliminary analysis and pave the way to further indepth stakeholders' preferences investigations. In this respect, they can provide the input necessary to design a stated preference survey [3,[28][29][30]. In UFT, they are useful to gain insight on freight distribution problems.…”

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Towards a decision-support procedure to foster stakeholder involvement and acceptability of urban freight transport policies

Pira

Marcucci

Gatta

et al. 2017

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Purpose This paper addresses the complex problem of multi-stakeholder decisions in urban freight transport policy-making from a public authority perspective, by proposing a procedure based on a modelling approach to support stakeholder involvement in the decisionmaking process. The paper analyses the existing methods that can be used for participatory decision-support, with the intent of contextualizing and introducing the innovative modelling approach. Methods The modelling approach consists of a well-thought integration of discrete choice models (DCM) with agent-based models (ABM) as an effective way to account for stakeholders' opinions in the policy-making process, while mimicking their interaction to find a shared policy package. The integrated modelling approach is able to combine the advantages of the two methods while overcoming their respective weaknesses. Since it is well grounded on sound microeconomic theory, it provides a detailed (static) stakeholders' behavioural knowledge, but it is also capable of reproducing agents' (dynamic) interaction during the decision-making process. The integration allows performing an ex-ante behavioural analysis, with the aim of testing the potential acceptability of the solutions proposed. The methodology is applied in a real case study to prove its feasibility and usefulness for participatory decision-making. Results The integrated modelling approach can be used for participatory decision-support and it can be casted in the overall UFT policy-making process. The results of the behavioural analysis, in terms of ranking of potentially accepted policies, linked with the technical evaluations from transport network modelling tools, provide a sound basis for active participation and deliberation with stakeholders and policy-makers. The aim is to guide an effective participation process aimed at consensus building among stakeholders, by proposing them a subset of policies that, as a result of a preliminary analysis, are likely to be accepted while performing well in terms of technical results. Conclusions This approach, integrating DCM and ABM, represents a promising way to tackle the complexity of multistakeholder involvement in UFT policy-making and to support an efficient and effective decision-making process. It produces an added value for UFT policy-making and it can be framed in the overall context of transport planning. In fact, together with technical and economic analyses, the stakeholder behavioural analysis proposed contributes to the ex-ante policy assessment needed to support decision-makers in taking well-thought decisions.

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“…Alternatively, they provided post-trip geographical information through an application not necessarily This opens good opportunities for unexplored sectors like freight transport, which relevance and impacts are important but, sometimes, underestimated [47]. In this respect, crowdsourcing coupled with GIS data could provide good opportunity to improve the efficiency of logistics, especially in a city context, where citizens can be directly involved in the freight delivery process, i.e., via "crowdshipping" [48]. This implies deliveries via the crowd, i.e., by considering that any trip people perform to satisfy personal objectives can become a vector for shipping freight using the usually available spare load capacity [49].…”

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Mapping with Stakeholders: An Overview of Public Participatory GIS and VGI in Transport Decision-Making

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Pira

Inturri

et al. 2019

IJGI

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Transport decision-making problems are typically spatially based and involve a set of feasible alternatives with multiple evaluation criteria. Besides, transport decisions affect citizens’ quality of life, as well as specific interests of general stakeholders (e.g., transport companies), thus needing a participatory approach to decision-making. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have the ability to visualize spatial data and represent the impact of location based transport alternatives, thus helping experts to conduct robust assessments. Moreover, with the recent diffusion of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and development of Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS) platforms, the process can be enhanced thanks to the collection of a large amount of updated spatial data and the achievement of an active community participation. In this study, we provide an overview based on a structured literature review of the use of VGI and PPGIS in transport studies, exploring the fields of application, role played by GIS, level of public involvement and decision stage at which they are applied. From the overview’s results, we propose a general framework for the evaluation of transport alternatives using GIS from a multiple stakeholder point of view; the main conclusion is the usefulness of the integration between Public Participation, GIS and quantitative evaluation methods, in particular Multi Criteria Decision Analysis, in order to foster technically sound and shared decisions.

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Connected shared mobility for passengers and freight: Investigating the potential of crowdshipping in urban areas

Cited by 65 publications

References 7 publications

Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries

Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries

Towards a decision-support procedure to foster stakeholder involvement and acceptability of urban freight transport policies

Mapping with Stakeholders: An Overview of Public Participatory GIS and VGI in Transport Decision-Making

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