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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.
Yanyan Chen, Mengyu Bi, Lai Jianhui
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Crowdsourced last-mile delivery with parcel lockers
International Journal of Production Economics, 2022Crowdshipping is increasingly known as a sustainable solution to address the challenges of last mile delivery (LMD) in urban areas. While employing the crowd to perform LMD appears to be an operationally and financially appealing model, it comes with several challenges in practice, including low willingness to participate in delivery work due to low ...
Lele Zhang, Hadi Ghaderi, Pei-Wei Tsai
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From home delivery to parcel lockers: a case study in Amsterdam
Transportation Research Procedia, 2020 E-commerce is still a strong growing segment with fierce competition among the parcel delivery service providers. To stay ahead of the competitors innovation is necessary. Currently, parcels are being delivered with large delivery vans which will usually deliver single parcels to doorsteps of their customers.
Bart van Arem, J H R van Duin
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Parcel Locker as the Alternative of Parcel Delivery Service of Online Shopping
Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 2020Currently, parcel delivery activities are growing rapidly in the urban area along with the increase in online shopping transactions. This trend has an impact on the deterioration in the performance of the urban transportation system due to the increase of fleet of goods carriers as part of last mile delivery of online shopping.
Hendra Gunawan +3 more
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A parcel network flow approach for joint delivery networks using parcel lockers
International Journal of Production Research, 2020Current courier networks in metropolitan areas are characterised by utilising fleets of vans that perform collection and distribution routes independently.
Shichang Pan +3 more
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Understanding Portuguese Users of Parcel Locker Services
2024 28th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)The rise of e-commerce, greatly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has created a need for more efficient and dependable delivery methods. As a result, alternative delivery points, such as parcel lockers, are being explored as effective solutions for distributing e-commerce products.
Marta Ferreira +6 more
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Multi-functional Parcel Delivery Locker system
2015 International Conference on Computer and Computational Sciences (ICCCS), 2015As a product in the field of electronic information technology, the new-concept Multi-functional Parcel Delivery Locker (MFPDL) mainly utilizes C51 MCU and GSM/GPRS modules to send customers SMS with passwords, by which they can be validated to get their parcete.
Sun Ze-hong, Zhao Guang-yuan
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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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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
2019Nowadays, 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 +2 more
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Parcel locker stations: A solution for the last mile?
2021Postal outlets and parcel shops are increasingly complemented by parcel locker stations. This paper explores the potential reasons for varying trends in the use of parcel locker stations in Europe and discusses the role of parcel locker stations in e-commerce delivery.
Niederprüm, Antonia +1 more
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