Session Chair: Walid Klibi. KEDGE Business School & PI Builder Award 2018
The concept of Hyperconnected City Logistics (HCL) suggests an open and
shared system associate with multi-modes transportation to meet the
challenges of City Logistics (CL). A new application of Parcel lockers
is suggested in this paper which is to be used as transhipment hubs
besides the current popular utilization as ship/reception lockers.
Transhipment could be easily processed through parcel lockers rather
than building new specific transfer hubs which are cost consumption and
normally away from demand nodes. We formulate the model from the
perspective of Pick-up and Delivery Problem with Transhipment and
Time-Window (PDPTTW) and propose Combine Saving heuristic for solving
the PDPTTW. The heuristics has been evaluated by a set of examples and
show a good performance.
One of the main pillars of the Physical Internet (PI) is cooperation. One possible form of cooperation in freight transportation is bundling. As soon as bundling is in focus, we have to think about locations where this bundling might take place, which are, normally, hubs. So, the main idea would be that different freight carriers meet at a specific hub and exchange their freight according to some (clever) planning such that redundancies in trips are overcome. E.g., instead of two carriers serving regions A and B, they cooperate such that the first carrier only has to serve region A and the other one only has to serve area B. Even though the general idea is quite clear, details are sometimes more complicated. In this paper, potentials and dilemmas related to cooperative delivery models based on the observations made in selected Austrian case studies are outlined.
E-commerce has led to more small parcels being shipped between businesses in metropolitan and CBD areas. Courier routes in large metropolitan areas are inefficient due to the long stem distances and prevalence of courier companies only operating from a single depot.
This paper presents a model for estimating the benefits in terms of reduced distances travelled by courier vans when a shared system utilising parcel lockers is used for CBD based deliveries. The model was used to predict the savings in distances travelled by courier vans when operating in a shared system utilising parcel lockers. Substantial savings in travel distances were estimated that would reduce vehicle operating costs as well as improving sustainability.
This paper discusses a shared mobility service that combines passenger
and freight transport. Crowdshipping, in fact, implies delivering goods
(freight) via the crowd (passengers). Any trip people perform to fulfil
individual objectives can, in principle, be transformed shipping freight
service too by using the free load capacity passengers have when moving
from A to B. If widely developed this could provide a substantial
contribution to reduce transport externalities by avoiding dedicated
freight trips. This paper discusses both feasibility and behavioural
issues with the intent of diffusing its deployment in urban areas. It
does so by presenting some recent research advances related to the study
of both demand (i.e. buyers) and supply (providers, i.e. crowdshippers)
and discussing the main impacts this solution might have from an
environmental and an economic point of view. In particular, it focuses
on a particularly environmental-friendly crowdshipping service. The
service considered assumes using a city mass transit network where
customers/crowdshippers pick-up/drop-off goods via automated parcel
lockers located either inside the transit stations or in their
surroundings. Crowdshipping can play a crucial role in relieving cities
from transport-related negative externalities by promoting the sharing
economy and Physical Internet paradigm aiming for a shared, hyper
connected, sustainable and efficient last-mile logistics.