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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Last-Mile Parcel Delivery: A State-of-the-Art Review
DronesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being increasingly implemented in parcel delivery applications. The scientific progress in this field is progressing exponentially.
Almodather Mohamed, Moataz Mohamed
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Moving towards “mobile warehouse”: Last-mile logistics during COVID-19 and beyond
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021 Supply chains in general and last-mile logistics in particular, have been disrupted due to COVID-19. Though several innovative last-mile logistics solutions have been proposed in the past, they possess certain limitations, especially during COVID-19 ...
S. Srivatsa Srinivas, Rahul R. Marathe
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, 2021 Last mile delivery is one of the most complex processes in the whole logistics process. This is because it involves many uncertainties, such as weather conditions, road conditions, traffic, car accidents, delivery vehicle anomalies, choice of route ...
Corchado Rodríguez, Juan Manuel
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Last-mile logistics with alternative delivery locations: A systematic literature review
Results in EngineeringLast-mile logistics plays a crucial role in modern supply chains, particularly in the retail industry. Despite its vital role in ensuring timely delivery to end-users, it is often considered the most expensive and ineffective segment of the logistics ...
Nima Pourmohammadreza +2 more
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Crowdsourced Delivery—A Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem with Ad Hoc Drivers [PDF]
, 2019 The trend toward shorter delivery lead times reduces operational efficiency and increases transportation costs for Internet retailers. However, mobile technology creates new opportunities to organize the last mile.
Agatz, Niels +4 more
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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2023 The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural e-customers’ preferences in terms of last mile delivery and products purchased via the Internet.
Małgorzata Markowska +3 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.PRRSV vaccine‐mediated protection is associated with clonally expanded cytotoxic CD8+ T cell subsets driven by viral structural proteins and supported by innate TLR4/TLR8 signaling and CD4+ T cell help, whereas non‐protective responses are characterized by dysfunctional exhausted‐like CD8+ T cells linked to poor viral control.
Can Kong +14 more
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Design of sustainable urban electronic grocery distribution network
Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2021 To meet the expectation of multi-modal distributions from customers for last-mile delivery, a sustainable two-echelon E-Grocery delivery system is studied, which is motivated by the adaption of autonomous delivery robot (ADRs), parcel lockers in E ...
Dan Liu +4 more
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Improving last-mile parcel delivery through shared consolidation and portering: A case study in London [PDF]
Based on the insights derived from practical trials conducted with carriers operating in London, this article proposes a last-mile delivery model that involves both driving and walking. A particularly innovative aspect of the model is the shared use of a
Bektas, T. +5 more
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Enabling the PI to solve multi-layered problems of the Last Mile Logistics
, 2023 The increase in last mile delivery poses numerous challenges for cities worldwide. Concepts such as the Physical Internet (PI) should support them on their way to more sustainable last mile logistics.
Beck, Katharina, Esquillor, Javi
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