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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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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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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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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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Perceived Importance and Quality Attributes of Automated Parcel Locker Services in Urban Areas
Smart Cities, 2023 Recent global trends related to the increasing use of e-commerce are becoming a challenge for courier transport, especially in the last-mile process of delivering products to the final retail recipient.
Maria Cieśla
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Spatial Pattern and Influencing Factor Analysis of Parcel Lockers in London [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesWhen 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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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 +5 more
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