In the wake of e-commerce and its successful diffusion in most commercial activities, last-
mile distribution causes more and more trouble in urban areas all around the globe …

Increasing urbanization has turned transporting freight from, to, and within urban areas into
a major challenge. Freight transportation represents a lifeline for urban retail and industry …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore if e-commerce customers change their
preferred last-mile delivery, when they are provided with additional information on the …

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 …

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 is increasingly known as a sustainable solution to address the challenges of
last mile delivery (LMD) in urban areas. While employing the crowd to perform LMD appears …

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 …

The sharing economy is estimated to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the global
economy and is rapidly growing. However, trust-based commercial sharing—the …

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 …

City logistics is one of the significant branches of supply chain management, dealing with
the logistics and transportation activities in urban areas. This research area has recently …