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Kai Gutenschwager, Markus Rabe and Jorge Chicaiza-Vaca
Fast growing e-commerce has a significant impact both on CEP providers and public entities. While service providers have the first priority on factors such as costs and reliable service, both are increasingly focused on environmental effects, in the inte...
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Mengyue Ding, Nadeem Ullah, Sara Grigoryan, Yike Hu and Yan Song
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in e-commerce, which has prompted residents to shift their purchasing habits from offline to online. As a result, Smart Parcel Lockers (SPLs) have emerged as an accessible end-to-end delivery servic...
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Angie Ramirez-Villamil, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres and Anicia Jaegler
Studies that use rivers in a last-mile delivery context are scarce. This research considers the first multimodal alternative based on a barge for parcel delivery activities. It proposes two sustainable network designs for a two-echelon distribution. The ...
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Mao Nishira, Satoshi Ito, Hiroki Nishikawa, Xiangbo Kong and Hiroyuki Tomiyama
Delivery drones have been attracting attention as a means of solving recent logistics issues, and many companies are focusing on their practical applications. Many research studies on delivery drones have been active for several decades. Among them, exte...
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Abdulghani Mohamed, Matthew Marino, Simon Watkins, Justin Jaworski and Anya Jones
There is a growing desire to operate Uncrewed Air Vehicles (UAVs) in urban environments for parcel delivery, and passenger-carrying air taxis for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). The turbulent flows and gusts around buildings and other urban infrastructure c...
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Xinyu He, Chengpeng Jiang, Lishuai Li and Henk Blom
UAS-based commercial services such as urban parcel delivery are expected to grow in the upcoming years and may lead to a large volume of UAS operations in urban areas. These flights may pose safety risks to persons and property on the ground, which are r...
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Markus Rabe, Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu, Jorge Chicaiza-Vaca and Rafael D. Tordecilla
The introduction of automated parcel locker (APL) systems is one possible approach to improve urban logistics (UL) activities. Based on the city of Dortmund as case study, we propose a simulation-optimization approach integrating a system dynamics simula...
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Abdul Quadir Md, Divyank Agrawal, Monark Mehta, Arun Kumar Sivaraman and Kong Fah Tee
With the pandemic gripping the entire humanity and with uncertainty hovering like a black cloud over all our future sustainability and growth, it became almost apparent that though the development and advancement are at their peak, we are still not ready...
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Péter Böröcz and Bence Molnár
In recent years there has been a very significant increase in parcel delivery shipments all over the world. Moreover, this mode of delivery, in some cases, is facing a very intensive flow of goods, such as in annual festive seasons or, for instance, in s...
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Junsu Kim, Hongbin Moon and Hosang Jung
In general, the demand for delivery cannot be fulfilled efficiently due to the excessive traffic in dense urban areas. Therefore, many innovative concepts for intelligent transportation of freight have recently been developed. One of these concepts relie...
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