The growth of car-sharing services as a new and more sustainable way of transportation is
shifting the private mobility from ownership to service use. Despite the emerging importance …

Coincident with the rapid growth of omni-channel retailing, growing urbanization, changing
consumer behavior, and increasing focus on sustainability, academic interest in the area of …

This book provides one of the first unified accounts of the dynamic aspects involved in the
strategic behavior in queues. The author presents the material in an easy style with mostly …

In recent years, the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) based smart parcel lockers has
developed very rapidly in Asia due to the wider applications from retailers, e-commerce …

Abstract “First and Last Mile Delivery” stands for freight transport logistics over the first and
the last part of the way to the customer, accordingly. In freight transport, the first and the last …

During the past few years, the increase of last-mile distribution (LMD) of the business-to-
consumer (B2C) e-commerce has brought changes for the Supply Chain Management …

This paper aims to solve the last-mile distribution of rural e-commerce logistics (RECL) for
the survival of third-party logistics enterprise. Considering the features of the RECL (long …

Effective last-mile (LM) delivery is critical to the efficient functioning of supply chains. In
addition to speed and the cost of delivery, environmental and social sustainability are …

With the increasing interest in online shopping, the Last Mile delivery is regarded as one of
the most expensive and pollutive—and yet the least efficient—stages of the e-commerce …

The last mile delivery is regarded as one of the most expensive but least efficient stretches in
the business‐to‐customer supply chain. Designing the last mile delivery system in a lean …