Implementing electric vehicles in urban distribution: A discrete event simulation

Lebeau, Philippe; Macharis, Cathy; Mierlo, Joeri Van; Maes, Guillaume

doi:10.3390/wevj6010038

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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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Section: Themes In Last Mile Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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

confidence: 99%

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

2019

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“…With fewer freight vehicles, negative environmental and social effects caused by them can be reduced. Also, UCCs enable a change to smaller, more environmentally friendly vehicles, due to shorter delivery distances (Browne et al, 2005;van Rooijen & Quak, 2010;Lebeau et al, 2013), and Lin et al (2016) also note that energy consumption can be reduced. The other part of the benefits is dependent on the stakeholder.…”

Section: Benefits and Ucc Servicesmentioning

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“…The receivers can have the opportunity to select preferred delivery time Due to shorter delivery routes, UCCs can offer a change to vehicles that are more environmentally friendly as regards both size and fuel Browne et al (2005), Lebeau et al (2013), van Rooijen and Quak (2010), Browne et al (2011) Pre-retail services UCCs can offer multiple pre-retail services to the receivers. For example, price tagging of products, attaching anti-theft devices, preparation for store displays, unpacking larger consignments, customizing products to local standards, and filling shelves at the receiver's premises Browne et al (2005), Aastrup et al (2012), Allen et al (2014), Nordtømme et al (2015), Malhene et al (2012) Ordering process UCCs can take over the task of ordering new of new products from e.g.…”

Section: Ucc Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Consolidation Centres : On Relationships between Customer Needs and Services in City Logistics

Johansson

2018

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Licentiate Thesis

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Urban Consolidation Centres (UCCs) are often conceived as an enabler to alleviate negative effects associated with distribution of goods in cities, such as traffic congestion and hazardous emissions. UCCs not only have the potential to reduce these effects but also provide alternative distribution solutions by introducing new transhipment points. Despite their potential, UCCs often fail to be self-supporting and are often dependent on subsides, which is not considered to be sustainable in the long run. In response, this thesis takes its point of departure in the two business models elements value propositions and target customers. A business model is often viewed as an enabler to generate revenue and UCCs have the potential to generate revenue by offering services to their customers, and the customers pay for the services. To understand how customers can benefit from UCCs and provide arguments why they should use these, it is important to understand the relationship between customers' needs and the services UCCs can provide. The purpose of this thesis is to identify and describe the potential relationship between needs of UCC customers and UCC services.The research in the thesis is both explorative and descriptive, where a first step is to identify customer needs, UCC services, and value propositions. The descriptive part is to describe them and it is also the foundation for understanding the relationship between customer needs and UCC services. Through the analysis and discussion, multiple customer needs are identified and described for seven customer groups and the UCC operator; all of which could be considered customers of UCCs. The thesis also adds to the UCC literature with three new identified UCC services: e-commerce with used products, advertisement, and registration in computer system. The outcome of the analysis also provides illustrations of how customer needs can be matched with UCC services. For the most studied customer group, receiver of goods, a total of 29 different matches were identified, which illustrates the possibilities but also the complexity of the relationships. To understand the relationship, three different types of gaps were also identified that have implications for future research.The main contributions to research and the UCC literature in particular are enlargement of the scope of customers and the illustration of the relationships between customer needs and UCC services. The illustrations include contributions such as identifying, mapping and describing the customer needs, UCC services, and value propositions. An important first step is to understand how customer needs and UCC services can be linked, and this thesis provides examples of how this can be achieved. Viewing every stakeholder as a potential customer opens up the opportunity to fulfil their needs and the potential to generate revenue, which in turn could close the gap in the problem of non-self-supporting UCCs. Furthermore, with self-supporting UCCs, the number of freight vehicles can be reduced and this may l...

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“…Concurrently, many local authorities have also positively formulated a policy that aims to promote the application of EVs in urban freight. The reason is that much research on EVs is related to replacement strategies [28,38,42,50] and cost evaluation [33,34,36,45], as well as the choice of vehicle routing. Hence, the use of EVs in urban freight is in the operation and improvement phase.…”

Section: Analysis Of Implementation Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration of Urban Freight Innovations: Sustainable Inner-Urban Intermodal Transportation in the Retail/Postal Industry

Haasis

2019

Sustainability

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Urban population growth has permanently increased the commodity demands and freight flow within urban areas. The retail/postal industry is intent on finding appropriate internal approaches and a new business model to respond to the adverse impacts generated by urban freight activities. Usage of emerging transport modes is an efficient solution for these industries. Nevertheless, considerable research has paid less attention to the implementation status of distribution innovations, as well as to their suitability and application restrictions. Concurrently, a comprehensive consideration of various distribution innovations that operate together as a system is lacking. To this end, this paper adopted a literature review method and GE multifactorial analysis. Specifically, this paper reviewed the related articles that were published in the past six years (2013–2018) to define the concept of distribution innovations. In addition, we adopted the approach of GE multifactorial analysis to analyze the application status of distribution innovations from the perspective of academic research and company implementation. Following the suitability assessment and application of restriction analysis, we proposed the concept of sustainable inner-urban intermodal transport (SIUIT) for the retail/postal industry. This paper contributes to the sustainable urban freight literature by exploring possible future research directions of SIUIT.

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Implementing electric vehicles in urban distribution: A discrete event simulation

Cited by 33 publications

References 26 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

Urban Consolidation Centres : On Relationships between Customer Needs and Services in City Logistics

Integration of Urban Freight Innovations: Sustainable Inner-Urban Intermodal Transportation in the Retail/Postal Industry

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