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(Un)Locking Parcel Lockers

2020
Because of the development of the parcel business, innovative last-mile delivery solutions are growing in importance. Missed home delivery attempts are costly for parcel delivery service providers and inconvenient for the addressees. Parcel lockers for depositing and collecting parcels and small packages seem to be a possible solution.
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Queueing Analysis of Home Delivery Services with Parcel Lockers

2019
Nowadays, Parcel Delivery Service (PDS) has become popular due to the popularization of Electric Commerce (EC). The redelivery problem has also become serious due to the absence of receivers and the courier must deliver again at a later time. The increase in the number of redeliveries causes social losses such as extra workload of delivery, carbon ...
Shinto Hideyama, Tuan Phung-Duc, Yukihiko Okada   +2 more
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A parcel locker network as a solution to the logistics last mile problem

International Journal of Production Research, 2017
We consider the problem of designing a parcel locker network as a solution to the Logistics Last Mile Problem: Choosing the optimal number, locations, and sizes of parcel locekers facilities.
Yael Deutsch, Boaz Golany
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Location analysis of parcel locker Network: Effects of spatial characteristics on operational performance

Transportation Research, Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Parcel lockers are automated self-collection stations commonly used for e-commerce deliveries. It has emerged as a promising solution that overcomes the operational and sustainability challenges arising from Last-Mile Delivery.
Teo, Chee-Chong, Ma, Bohao, Wong, Yiik Diew   +2 more
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The Deployment of Automated Parcel Lockers in Urban Logistics

This chapter reviews the notion of automated parcel lockers (APL) and proposes a simulation-optimization methodology for APL adoption as last-mile delivery scheme, reducing the risk of failures in their implementations. After addressing the main issues in APL deployment and simulation and optimization related to them, a method combining a system ...
Jorge Chicaiza Vaca, Markus Rabe, Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu   +2 more
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Integrating mobile parcel lockers into last-mile delivery networks: an operational design for home delivery, stationary, and mobile parcel lockers

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management
PurposeThe e-commerce boom presents new challenges for last-mile delivery (LMD), which may be mitigated by new delivery technologies. This paper evaluates the impact of mobile parcel lockers (MPL) on costs and CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissions in existing LMD networks, which include home delivery and shipments to stationary parcel lockers.Design ...
Marcel Peppel, Stefan Spinler, Matthias Winkenbach   +2 more
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Parcel Lockers, an Answer to the Pressure on the Last Mile Delivery?

2018
Over the last decade, e-commerce has spurred the growth in parcel lockers. This relatively new phenomenon has the potential to significantly impact different aspects of the traditional postal delivery model. First of all, preliminary research shows that consumers approach parcel lockers positively, although it is yet only used by a rather small part of
Özhan Zurel, Laurent Van Hoyweghen, Stijn Braes, Aurelie Seghers   +3 more
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A parcel network flow approach for joint delivery networks using parcel lockers

International Journal of Production Research, 2021
Lele Zhang, Hadi Ghaderi, Russell Thompson   +2 more
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Consumer perceptions to support IoT based smart parcel locker logistics in China

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2021
Yuk Ming Tang, Ka Yin Chau, Xiaoyun Liu
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Do We Need Regulation for Parcel Lockers?

2023
Xavier Ambrosini, Alice Bermont-Vialatte, Marine Lefort   +2 more
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