The environmental and economic effects of innovative measures in urban parcels delivery

The main scope of this research is to identify and evaluate solutions to redesign the parcels delivery logistic process to achieve higher level of quality, lower operational costs, energy consumptions and air pollution. The study is starting from the analysis of the delivery process managed by a leader company operating in Rome. Main delivery flows, personnel and fleet management costs, quality performances and environmental impacts are investigated. The results of this analysis are benchmarked with other European situations. On the basis of the feedback of this analysis, a set of operational measures, potentially able tackle the objectives, are identified and assessed by means of a simulative approach. The assessment is based on environmental and economic indicators allowing the comparison between new and reference scenarios from the viewpoints of the key players: operator, customer and society. Moreover, the operational measures are combined into alternative packages by looking for the sets capable to maximize the benefits for the key players. The methodology, tested on Rome case study, is general and flexible enough to be extended to parcels delivery problem in different urban contexts, as well as to similar urban distribution problems (e.g. press, food, security, school).

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.2495/UT140201
• Record URL:
  • http://library.witpress.com/pages/PaperInfo.asp?PaperID=26140
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from WIT Press.
• Corporate Authors:

  WIT Press

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• Authors:
  • Lopez Lambas, M E
  • Ricci, S
• Conference:
  • 20th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment
  • Location: Faro Algarve, Portugal
  • Date: 2014-5-28 to 2014-5-30
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 235-245
• Monograph Title: Urban Transport XX
• Serial:
  • WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
  • Issue Number: 138
  • Publisher: Wessex Institute of Technology
  • ISSN: 1743-3509
  • Serial URL: http://library.witpress.com/pages/listBooks.asp?tID=2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Delivery service; Economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Logistics; Urban areas; Urban goods movement
• Geographic Terms: Rome (Italy)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01534696
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781845647780
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 2014 3:34PM