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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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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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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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Logistics, 2023 Background: The growth of e-commerce necessitates efficient logistics management to address rising last-mile delivery challenges. To overcome some of the last-mile delivery costs, parcel lockers as a delivery option, can be an alternative solution.
Amira Saker, Amr Eltawil, Islam Ali
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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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Algorithms, 2020 We consider the problem of utilizing the parcel locker network for the logistics solution in the metropolitan area. Two-echelon distribution systems are attractive from an economic standpoint, whereas the product from the depot can be distributed from or
A. A. N. Perwira Redi +5 more
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Mathematics, 2022 The rapid growth of electronic commerce is having an impact on the way urban logistics are organized. In metropolitan settings, the last-mile delivery problem, i.e., the problem regarding the final stage of delivering a shipment to a consumer, is a major
Bartosz Sawik +3 more
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The Operation Analysis of the Innovative MainBox Food Storage Device
Applied Sciences, 2021 The development and construction of a prototype device (food parcel locker), consisting of small cooling and freezing chambers (boxes) ensuring temperature conditions (+5 C or −18 °C), enabling food storage were carried out. The innovative solutions have
Magdalena Wróbel-Jędrzejewska +1 more
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