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Title: Assessing the Impacts of Crowdshipping: A Simulation based Study in the City of Volos, Greece
Accession Number: 01763668
Record Type: Component
Abstract: Crowdsourced deliveries or crowdshipping is identified in recent literature as an emerging urban freight transport solution, aiming at reducing delivery costs, congestion and environmental impacts. By leveraging the pervasive use of the mobile technology, crowdshipping is the next stop of sharing economy in the transport domain, as parcels are delivered by private car drivers or public transport users, rather than corporations. The objective of this research is to evaluate the impacts of crowdshipping through a number of alternative scenarios that consider various level of demand and adoption by public transport users who act as crowdshippers, based on a real case study example in the city of Volos, Greece. This is achieved through the establishment of a tailored evaluation framework and a city scale urban freight traffic microsimulation model. Results show that crowdshipping has the potential to mitigate last mile delivery impacts and effectively contribute in improving system’s performance.
Supplemental Notes: This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT025 Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation.
Report/Paper Numbers: TRBAM-21-02544
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research BoardAuthors: Pagination: 19p
Publication Date: 2021
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Maps; References; Tables
TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-02544
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Dec 23 2020 11:08AM
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