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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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Optimizing Parcel Locker Locations with Pricing Decisions in Last-Mile Delivery
, 2023 22nd International Symposium for Production Research, ISPR 2022 -- 6 October 2022 through 8 October 2022 -- -- 291539The parcel locker is a new last-mile delivery concept that provides outdoor delivery of commercial goods.
YUNUSOĞLU, PINAR +3 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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Dynamic Demand Management for Parcel Lockers
CoRRIn pursuit of a more sustainable and cost-efficient last mile, parcel lockers have gained a firm foothold in the parcel delivery landscape. To fully exploit their potential and simultaneously ensure customer satisfaction, successful management of the locker's limited capacity is crucial.
Daniela Sailer +2 more
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Flexible parcel delivery to automated parcel lockers: models, solution methods and analysis
EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 2019 In this study, we introduce a logistic model for the delivery of small parcels to a set of service points (SPs), and we present effective methods for solving it. In the traditional delivery model, each recipient specifies a single location at which they wish to receive the parcel; however, when SPs are used, many recipients may have no strong ...
Ido Orenstein, Tal Raviv, Elad Sadan
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Method of estimation of car trips induced to pick up parcels from parcel lockers
Archives of TransportFor several years, parcel lockers have been rapidly growing in the field of delivery methods as a convenient, time-flexible way of picking up parcels.
Jan Paszkowski, Renata Żochowska
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Collaboration in parcel locker networks—A cooperative game for the joint placement of lockers
International Journal of Production EconomicsMore and more people order products online and have parcels delivered to their homes. This leads to more congestion, negatively impacting the environment, public health, and safety. Carriers can use parcel lockers to consolidate and serve their customers to reduce these negative impacts.
Fabio Mercurio +3 more
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Mobile home delivery parcel lockers
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation ReviewThe demand for last-mile parcel delivery services is expected to increase. Great efforts are therefore being made to develop new ideas for more efficient last-mile delivery. One of the more recent concepts are Mobile Parcel Lockers (MPL), which can be easily repositioned to meet the actual daily demand for deliveries.
Kötschau, Rico +3 more
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Transport TechnologiesLast-mile delivery is the last element of the supply chain. It plays a key role in urban logistics processes related to the efficient and environmentally friendly transportation of goods within an urban area.
Stefan Jovčić, Libor Bauer
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