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Parcel Locker Applications in Turkey
Beykent Üniversitesi Fen ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, 2023 Alternative delivery applications are gaining popularity today, and parcel lockers are differentiated from others as they offer different delivery location options to customers. One of the biggest problems faced by courier companies today is that customers are not always available at the place of delivery during delivery.
Kutay AKDOĞAN, Eren ÖZCEYLAN
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The Externality Of Parcel Locker Service
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2022 Abstract A type of e-commerce which is growing rapidly is B2C (Business-to-Customer), thus, home delivery, the delivery service that supports this activity, is also developing. As the result, there is competition between home delivery services that causes last mile segment to become fragmented.
Mia Meliaresti, null Nahry
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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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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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The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows, Partial Recharges, and Parcel Lockers
Applied Sciences, 2023 This paper presents an extension of the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Partial Recharges (EVRPTW-PR), which incorporates the use of parcel lockers as a delivery method (i.e., self-pickup method).
Vincent F. Yu +2 more
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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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Transportation Engineering, 2023 Optimal location selection plays a crucial role in enhancing logistic performance and addressing inefficiencies in last-mile delivery. Parcel lockers have emerged as an efficient solution in this regard.
Sarbast Moslem, Francesco Pilla
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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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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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Location Optimization for Community Smart Parcel Lockers Based on Bilevel Programming
Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2023 With the rapid development of e-commerce and the dramatic upsurge in direct-to-consumer deliveries, the last-mile problem has become increasingly apparent.
Xia Yang +4 more
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