Public transport crowdshipping: moving shipments among parcel lockers located at public transport stations
Alexander Wyrowski,
Nils Boysen,
Dirk Briskorn
et al.
Abstract:In view of success stories of unicorn startups from the sharing and gig economy such as Airbnb, DiDi, or Uber, it is not surprising that postal service providers try to transfer the sharing idea toward their last-mile delivery services: owners of under-used assets (here private crowdshippers traveling anyway) are connected with users willing to pay for the use of these assets (here postal service providers having to deliver parcels). In this paper, we consider a special form of crowdshipping where public trans… Show more
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