Seeking equity and justice in urban freight: where to look?

T Fried, A Goodchild, M Browne… - Transport …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Urban freight systems embed and reflect spatial inequities in cities and imbalanced power
structures within transport decision-making. These concerns are principal domains of …

Rising to the challenge: Embedding environmental justice in management and organization studies

A Foster, N Wissman, LA Bray… - Organization & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Management and organization studies (MOS) scholars have recently brought attention to the
lack of engagement with social equity and justice in tackling grand challenges. We argue …

From brick-and-mortar to location-less restaurant: The spatial fixing of on-demand food delivery platformization

G Talamini, W Li, X Li - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Location has historically been vital to a restaurant's success. However, in the past decade,
on-demand food delivery (ODFD) platforms like Meituan, Deliveroo, and Uber Eats have …

What if delivery riders quit? Challenges to last-mile logistics during the Covid-19 pandemic

MH Nguyen, D Pojani, DQ Nguyen-Phuoc… - … in Transportation Business …, 2023 - Elsevier
Notoriously precarious, hazardous, and stressful, delivery jobs became even more onerous
and dangerous during the pandemic. In this study, set in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, we …

Infrastructure, regulation and the experiences of delivery cyclists in Australian cities

A Thorpe, M Johnson, C Hercus, T Rudge, S Boufous… - Nature Cities, 2024 - nature.com
On-demand delivery has changed the way cities move. Accelerated by the COVID-19
pandemic, bicycles are the leading mode meeting growing consumer demand, particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Seattle microhub delivery pilot: Evaluating emission impacts and stakeholder engagement

S Gunes, T Fried, A Goodchild - Case Studies on Transport Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban freight deliveries using microhubs and e-cargo cycles have been gaining attention in
cities suffering from congestion and emissions. E-cargo cycle deliveries and microhubs used …

STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona

N Palacios Crisóstomo… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Amid the Covid‐19 pandemic, the food and grocery delivery sector became a multibillion‐
dollar industry, making riders with squared backpacks visible in our urban landscapes. We …

Reaprendiendo a trabajar: saberes que cuidan en el manejo de algoritmos entre riders

C Diz, PG Granados, AP Arratibel - Disparidades. Revista de …, 2023 - dra.revistas.csic.es
En este artículo etnografiamos cómo los repartidores de comida a domicilio están
reaprendiendo a trabajar en la economía de plataformas. En la intersección de la economía …

Women's (im) mobility strategies and digital platform adoption: the case study of employees doing desk work in Pune, India

P Baudens, A Masso, RM Soe - Gender, Technology and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the shift in (im) mobility through the digitalization of practices, based
on the views of women working in a multinational IT company in Pune, India. The digital …

Psychosocial work conditions and health status of digital platform workers in Taiwan: A mixed method study

YL Liu, Y Cheng, PH Tsai, YC Yang, YC Li, WJ Cheng - Safety Science, 2025 - Elsevier
Background The rapid growth of platform work has raised occupational safety and health
concerns. This study investigated the psychosocial work conditions and health status of …