Parcel delivery in urban areas: Opportunities and threats for the mix of traditional and green business models

Perboli, Guido; Rosano, Mariangela

doi:10.1016/j.trc.2019.01.006

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“…This last category includes solutions at the planning level that regard how the freight moves within the city, fostering the collaboration among the different actors, transportation modes and integrating people and freight. Many experiences in different cities [6,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20] address the potential of multi-modality and intermodality that integrate traditional vans with non-motorized vehicles as cargo bikes, for sustainable urban freight transport, encouraging their diffusion.…”

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“…Moreover, the awareness of the environmental impact of transportation activities as well as the significant congestion and environmental nuisances encourage the use of non-motorized transport to move people and goods (e.g., bikes and cargo bikes), self-service kiosks (i.e., lockers), and collaborative business models [2][3][4]. As [5,6] point out, the integration of different delivery alternatives is unfortunately not simple due to the relationships and disputes among actors, their business models and the technologies themselves.…”

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“…Once the goods coming from the long-haul shipments arrive at the urban distribution centres located in the outskirt of the city, the traditional subcontractor manages their deliveries in the last-mile segment. In the European market, it is usually a small or medium-sized company, generally organised as a legal form of cooperatives with limited financial and fleet capacity, as stated by [6].…”

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A Managerial Analysis of Urban Parcel Delivery: A Lean Business Approach

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The improper integration of traditional transportation modes with low emissions vehicles can generate a price war that reduces the service quality, undermining the efficiency and the profitability of parcel delivery operators. This paper aims to provide managerial insights to design a win-win strategy for the co-existence of traditional and green business models. In doing so, we adopt a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates a qualitative analysis through a Lean Business methodology, named GUEST, with a quantitative analysis based on simulation-optimisation techniques. This kind of holistic vision has received little attention in the literature. The first analysis investigates the parcel delivery industry with an emphasis on the main business models involved, their costs and revenues structures, while the quantitative part aims to simulate the system and extract sustainable policies. In particular, results highlight that in deploying mixed-fleet policies, the decision-makers have to focus both on the environmental sustainability that benefits from the adoption of low-emission vehicles, and on the operational feasibility and economic sustainability of the two services. In this direction, the paper suggests some managerial insights concerning the split of the customer demand between traditional and green operators, according to the classes of parcels and geographical areas of the city.

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“…The DS-PIVR method can at most shorten the routing distance of the repositioning vehicle by up to 36.55%, and the total routing distance of the system can be reduced by 18.59%, compared to the DS-RH method (see Table 4). To comprehensively validate the DS-PIVR method, we employ the validation process of previous works [13,27,28,35,36], and numerically generate 50 independent settings for each station of Boston PBS and Washington D.C. PBS, respectively. Table 5 summarizes our computational results for Boston and Washington D.C. PBSs.…”

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Dynamic Scheduling Based on Predicted Inventory Variation Rate for Public Bicycle System

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Xu²,

Duan³

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To improve efficiency and reduce the total scheduling cost of the public bicycle system (PBS), dynamic scheduling based on the predicted inventory variation rate (DS-PIVR) is proposed. Regarding a station in the PBS as an inventory system, its inventory variation rate during the scheduling period and its inventory rate at the end of the scheduling period were predicted based on the stationary Markov process condition. A mixed integer programming (MIP) model, whose objective is to minimize the total scheduling distance, was established to describe the dynamic scheduling problem (DSP). Results from Boston and Washington D.C. PBSs show that, when compared to the dynamic scheduling based on the rolling horizon (DS-RH), the DS-PIVR method could at most shorten the routing distance by 62.25% (for Boston) and 74.7% (for Washington D.C.) among all scheduling areas, and could at most shorten the total routing distance for the whole PBS by 21.06% (for Boston) and 17.26% (for Washington D.C.). Moreover, the DS-PIVR method makes the repositioning vehicle journey only once and keeps the inventory rate of each station in balance during the scheduling period. Furthermore, the DS-PIVR method provides a promising reference to improve the operation efficiency by reducing the scheduling cost and the quality of service by satisfying the users’ demand in time during the rush hours for the PBS operators.

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“…We remark that the above calculation gives a good approximation of the emissions only in the case of evaluating long-haul shipments at the strategic level. Therefore, in the real-time tools dedicated to more operational phases (see Section 4.4), the emission calculation depends on other factors (e.g., in the case of last-mile logistics [22,23]).…”

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Sustainable and De-Stressed International Supply-Chains Through the SYNCHRO-NET Approach

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Synchro-modal supply chain eco-NET (SYNCHRO-NET) is a Horizon 2020 European research project aimed at overcoming the stress due to the increasing transportation distances, the higher complexity, and the vulnerability of international supply chains. In order to foster sustainability, quality, and reliability of such supply chains, SYNCHRO-NET mainly exploits the impact and the possible benefits coming from slow/smart-steaming and synchro-modality transportation strategies, and the related business models. The aim of this paper is to summarize and disseminate the main developments and scientific contributions coming from the project. In particular, the working core of the SYNCHRO-NET solution is an integrated and cloud-based eco-system of optimization and simulation software modules that supports stakeholders’ decisions in freight transportation and logistics management at strategic, operational, and real-time levels. The platform has achieved a high grade of automation in several processes to overcome all the issues related to human-based operations. The efficiency and effectiveness of the overall platform have been tested on three case studies considering pan-European and regional trade lanes, as well as commercial activities between the Far East and European ports. The project results and outputs also allow us to analyze barriers and opportunities of the approach, industrial and academic developments, and relations with emerging technologies.

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Parcel delivery in urban areas: Opportunities and threats for the mix of traditional and green business models

Cited by 127 publications

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A Managerial Analysis of Urban Parcel Delivery: A Lean Business Approach

A Managerial Analysis of Urban Parcel Delivery: A Lean Business Approach

Dynamic Scheduling Based on Predicted Inventory Variation Rate for Public Bicycle System

Sustainable and De-Stressed International Supply-Chains Through the SYNCHRO-NET Approach

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