In the last decade, e-commerce has been growing consistently. Fostered by the covid
pandemic, online retail has grown exponentially, particularly in industries including food …

Self-collection concepts, such as collection and delivery points and parcel lockers, have
been commonly deployed. These concepts rely on consumers' efforts to carry out Last-Mile …

Background Last-mile delivery (LMD) is becoming more and more demanding due to an
increasing number of users and traffic problems in cities. Besides, medical crises (like the …

Purpose Last-mile delivery is associated with a negative environmental impact and high
costs. The purpose of this paper is to develop an approach to designing stationary parcel …

Road transport contributes to almost a quarter of carbon dioxide emissions in the EU. To
analyze the exhaust emissions generated by vehicle flows, it is necessary to use specialized …

This paper analyzes the carbon emission impact of pickup points in last-mile parcel delivery.
Pickup points provide customers and delivery companies with an alternative to attended …

Fast growing e-commerce has a significant impact both on CEP providers and public
entities. While service providers have the first priority on factors such as costs and reliable …

This study assesses the effects of using parcel lockers as an alternative to home deliveries,
combined with different locker network expansions. We use empirical shipment data and …

In recent months, online sales have experienced a sharp surge also due to the COVID
pandemic. In this paper, we propose a new location and routing problem for a last mile …

While macroscopic simulations of passenger vehicle traffic within cities are now common
practice, the integration of last mile delivery into a macroscopic simulation to evaluate the …