The continuous growth of e-commerce puts pressure on logistic service providers to fulfill more parcel deliveries. Concurrently, there are increasing calls from governments and society to carry this out sustainably. Crowdshipping is one possible innovative logistic service that addresses these challenges. Crowdshipping enlists members of the public to fulfill parcel deliveries, ideally en route along their pre-committed journeys. In this paper, we consider a setting where public transport passengers can serve as crowdshippers and propose a comprehensive framework to organize the scheme. Firstly, outlier parcels are identified as being suitable for crowdshipping. Then, these outlying parcels are matched with crowdshippers, who pick up parcels from a set of selected parcel lockers. We also investigate the viability of crowdshipping with real-world data. By comparing a carrier’s performance to a base case without crowdshipping, the results show that delivery vehicle kilometers traveled and associated carbon dioxide emissions can reduce by up to 20%. A total of 11% of parcels can be redirected to be delivered via crowdshipping. Crowdshipping using public transport has the potential to be a sustainable way to fulfill urban logistics in a dense city.


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    Title :

    Prioritizing Outlier Parcels for Public Transport-Based Crowdshipping in Urban Logistics


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


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    Publication date :

    2023-07-07




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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