Supply, demand, operations, and management of crowd-shipping services: A review and empirical evidence

TV Le, A Stathopoulos, T Van Woensel… - … Research Part C …, 2019 - Elsevier
Crowd-shipping promises social, economic, and environmental benefits covering a range of
stakeholders. Yet, at the same time, many crowd-shipping initiatives face multiple barriers …

Crowdshipping in last mile deliveries: Operational challenges and research opportunities

E Pourrahmani, M Jaller - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper contributes to the emerging body of research on crowdshipping, which is a
collaborative strategy that distributes delivery tasks to a mass of actors that act as ordinary …

[HTML][HTML] Crowdshipping for sustainable urban logistics: A systematic review of the literature

SS Mohri, H Ghaderi, N Nassir… - … Research Part E: Logistics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Crowd-Shipping (CS) solutions have been gaining popularity in industry and academia.
Despite numerous CS platforms having been introduced in the real world, only a limited …

To bid or not to bid: An empirical study of the supply determinants of crowd-shipping

A Ermagun, A Stathopoulos - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study makes three contributions to the literature of crowd-shipping. First, we represent a
national data set incorporating 16,850 crowd-shipping requests across the United States for …

[HTML][HTML] Crowd-shipping services for last mile delivery: Analysis from American survey data

TV Le, SV Ukkusuri - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Elsevier
This research analyzes current and future shipping behaviors, potential employees'
willingness to work as crowd-shipping (CS) driver-partners, as well as stakeholders' …

Potential last-mile impacts of crowdshipping services: a simulation-based evaluation

MD Simoni, E Marcucci, V Gatta, CG Claudel - Transportation, 2020 - Springer
Crowdsourced delivery services (crowdshipping) represent a shipping alternative to
traditional delivery systems, particularly suitable for e-commerce. Although some benefits in …

Studying determinants of crowd-shipping use

A Punel, A Ermagun, A Stathopoulos - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2018 - Elsevier
This study explores the differences between crowd-shipping users and non-users based on
responses to a 2016 online survey. We use proportional t-test analysis and a binary logit …

Public transport-based crowdshipping for sustainable city logistics: Assessing economic and environmental impacts

V Gatta, E Marcucci, M Nigro, SM Patella, S Serafini - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper aims at understanding and evaluating the environmental and economic impacts
of a crowdshipping platform in urban areas. The investigation refers to the city of Rome and …

Understanding and assessing crowd logistics business models–using everyday people for last mile delivery

V Frehe, J Mehmann, F Teuteberg - Journal of Business & Industrial …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the nature and characteristics of crowd
logistics business models. Using this evaluation, a new concept for a sustainable …

Crowdsourced delivery: A review of platforms and academic literature

A Alnaggar, F Gzara, JH Bookbinder - Omega, 2021 - Elsevier
Crowdsourced delivery systems have created many new industry last-mile delivery solutions
and have received some attention in the academic literature. In this review paper, we …