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Crowd deliveries is a business model in freight deliveries that is part of the new trend of shared economies. It matches excess vehicle capacity from the common person or crowd (who act as the courier) with the demand of others geographically dispersed individuals who require their merchandize to be delivered. In the last few years, there are more than 40 start-up companies in the U.S and more than 50 worldwide that use this new concept. This innovative model has shown to make urban freight more efficient particularly in the last-mile delivery, showing potential reductions for both transportation costs and environmental impacts. This study is intended to understand the shopping behaviors of individuals and their acceptance, or not, of these alternate delivery services, such as crowd deliveries, and their feasibility in accordance to today’s market conditions. Initial empirical findings in New York State suggest that there is still some resistance in accepting Crowd Deliveries but some segments of the population are more inclined to accept this new trend of deliveries.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT025 Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation.

18-02728

English

16p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Crowdsourcing; Delivery service; Freight transportation; Logits; Public opinion

Crowd deliveries

New York (State)

Freight Transportation; Highways

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-02728

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:39AM