New business models for last mile delivery in city centres
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Brusset, Xavier
Suarez, Miguel
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In urban regions, freight transportation is crucial for replenishing stores and markets’ inventories as well as for transporting packages, parcels and goods to citizens’ homes. However, urban freight transportation generates a number of negative effects, such as increased air and noise pollution, disturbance of traffic flow, and traffic congestion. We wish to address a particular aspect of today’s cities: the commercial traffic which enters cities daily and occupies the public space. We aim to reduce several of the nuisance sources of this activity. By reducing the traffic, we would obtain a lower carbon footprint of the commercial vehicles which come into cities to deliver e-commerce parcels to residents as well as reduced traffic and reduced noise. We present in this Paper three possible templates to be implemented in cities which will have both positive attractiveness for logistic service providers, satisfy end-customers and yet reduce traffic and CO2 emission.
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2023-06
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