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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, Yumeng Zhang, Mengyu Bi, Jianhui Lai, Yanyan Chen   +4 more
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Spatial Pattern and Influencing Factor Analysis of Parcel Lockers in London [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
When 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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Investigating Smart Parcel Locker System s in the Framework of Planned Behavior Theory: A Study of Electronic Last Mile Delivery Processes on E-Commerce Platforms

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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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, Giovanni Zenezini, Alberto De Marco, Filippo Maria Ottaviani, Tiziana Delmastro, Cristiana Botta   +5 more
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Dynamic Demand Management for Parcel Lockers

CoRR
In 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, Robert Klein, Claudius Steinhardt   +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 Economics
More 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, Loe Schlicher, Sonja U.K. Rohmer, Tom Van Woensel   +3 more
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Mobile home delivery parcel lockers

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
The 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, Scherr, Ninja, Tilk, Christian, Ehmke, Jan Fabian   +3 more
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Unlocking sustainable last mile deliveries through interventions in the pre-delivery stage

Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain
Technological innovations such as parcel lockers can only contribute to reducing the negative impact of last mile logistics on people, planet and profit outcomes if consumers adopt them. Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)
Alinda Kokkinou, Aistė Lastauskaitė, Hans Quak, Andreas Karaoulanis, Ondrej Mitas, Albert Mandemakers   +5 more
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Multiobjective Optimization for Planning the Service Areas of Smart Parcel Locker Facilities in Logistics Last Mile Delivery

Mathematics, 2022
The planning of the location service areas of smart parcel locker facilities became a critical aspect of logistics last mile delivery. In e-commerce, the efficiency of delivering merchandise from retailer warehouses to customers determines the ...
Zhen-Hua Che, Tzu-An Chiang, Yun-Jhen Luo   +2 more
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