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Journal of Transportation and Logistics, 2022 As digitalization touches human life at many different points, consumers’ perceptions toward innovations have been a matter of curiosity for experts. In this context, examining the factors affecting consumer acceptance of new technologies constitute the ...
Yavuz Toraman
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Policy Approaches for Placing Parcel Lockers in Public Space
Proceedings of the 9th International Physical Internet Conference, 2023 This Paper explores policy approaches for parcel lockers in public space. While lastmile delivery service providers primarily focus on the economic and customer service benefits of parcel lockers, securing approval from local governments to place lockers in public spaces requires justification of their public value.
Dobber, Ruurd, Buijs, Paul
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Spatial Pattern and Influencing Factor Analysis of Parcel Lockers in London [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesWhen carriers deliver goods to customers, last-mile delivery is one of the supply chain’s most costly and environmentally damaging components [1].
Kang Xinwei
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Perceived Importance and Quality Attributes of Automated Parcel Locker Services in Urban Areas
Smart Cities, 2023 Recent global trends related to the increasing use of e-commerce are becoming a challenge for courier transport, especially in the last-mile process of delivering products to the final retail recipient.
Maria Cieśla
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Locating Movable Parcel Lockers under Stochastic Demands
Symmetry, 2020 The movable unit equipped with a set of lockers has been recently developed as a new mode to improve the efficiency of the last mile delivery. Locating a set of movable parcel locker units appropriately is a fundamental factor to promote the merits of movable parcel lockers.
Yang Wang +3 more
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Consumer preferences for parcel delivery methods
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2022 In the Netherlands, as in many other densely populated countries, home delivery is the dominant way of delivering online ordered parcels. This is mainly because big retail companies offer this delivery option for free. Due to the expansion of e-commerce,
Eric Molin +2 more
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Estimating e-Consumers' Attitude Towards Parcel Locker Usage
2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2020 The widespread diffusion of the online channel in the retail marketplace is impacting modern society considerably in recent years. Given the growing demand, Business to Consumer (B2C) e-commerce entails a much higher complexity of the delivery process due to significant fragmentation of parcel shipments in the last mile, especially in urban areas ...
Ionut Alexandru Mitrea +5 more
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A Scheduling Strategy of Mobile Parcel Lockers for the Last Mile Delivery Problem
Promet (Zagreb), 2020 In the form of unattended Collection-and-Delivery Points (CDP), the fixed parcel lockers can save courier miles and improve the delivery efficiency. However, due to the fixed location and combination, the fixed parcel locker cannot accommodate the change
Yang Wang, Mengyu Bi, Yanyan Chen
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What Young E-Consumers Want? Forecasting Parcel Lockers Choice in Rome
Logistics, 2021 Surges in e-commerce sales represent a huge challenge for urban freight transport. Parcel lockers constitute a valid solution for addressing the challenges home deliveries imply.
Gabriele Iannaccone +2 more
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A Robust Optimization Method for Location Selection of Parcel Lockers under Uncertain Demands
Mathematics, 2022 Parcel lockers have continuously growing in popularity as an alternative mode for last-mile delivery services due to their capability of effectively alleviating the risk of a delivery failure, increasing the possibility of delivery consolidation, and ...
Yang Wang +4 more
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