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Title:

Food Deliveries to Residential Buildings in New York City: An Assessment of Delivery Characteristics

Accession Number:

01664141

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

During the last decade, ecommerce has emerged as a major producer of commercial vehicle trips in urban areas. One market that has seen a lot of innovation and changes due to the availability of technology-based services is the market for food, including both prepared meals and groceries. This study uses field data collected at eight large residential buildings in four boroughs of New York City to characterize the food delivery trips generated by online and in-store home-delivery services.The study investigates delivery frequencies, parcel lot sizes, delivery times, and modes of delivery.

Supplemental Notes:

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

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-05359

Language:

English

Authors:

Salas, Jose
Chen, Quanquan
Conway, Alison

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

New York (New York)

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-05359

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 11:21AM