01763877

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https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981211032214

Transit goals have typically focused on commuter trips but facilitating urban last mile freight logistics is a potential strategy to increase transit ridership and mitigate the demands of parcel distribution on the transportation network. Presently, most parcel lockers operate out of private businesses, but consumer surveys have found that transit users may be interested in locker facilities at transit facilities. The implementation of an unmanned, secure, common carrier parcel locker system could have benefits for non-transit users as well. This research presents a multiple-criteria approach for analyzing the potential of public transportation facilities as hosts for a common carrier locker system. Several accessibility and equity metrics, including ridership, mode of transportation, spatial distribution, and sociodemographic profiles of coverage areas are utilized. A case study utilizing real-word data from the Portland, OR region and its transit facilities is used to illustrate accessibility and equity tradeoffs. The results demonstrate that multiple facility types have the potential to host a locker system but there are complex accessibility and equity tradeoffs to be considered by stakeholders and policy makers when prioritizing locations.

Katherine L. Keeling https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8498-1015 © National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2021.

TRBAM-21-03977

English

0000-0002-8498-1015

0000-0003-1753-6605

0000-0003-2120-4929

pp 1075-1087

2021-12

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; Photos; References (40) ; Tables

Delivery service; Logistics; Rail transit stations; Transit centers; Transit malls; Transit oriented development; Urban areas

Portland Metropolitan Area (Oregon)

Freight Transportation; Terminals and Facilities

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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