Comparing home and parcel lockers’ delivery systems: a math-heuristic approach
E-commerce is a continuously growing sector worldwide, with important repercussions on the delivery system in urban areas and especially in the Business to Consumer (B2C) sector. The delivery of a package to a consumer’s address involves not only high costs for couriers (greater number of kilometres travelled), but also increased congestion and greater environmental pollution (greater volume of pollutants released into the air). To rationalize deliveries in urban areas the use of collection points, equipped with lockers, to store the goods that users have ordered has been considered in literature. This work compares two alternative delivery options: deliveries to the consumer’s home versus to Lockers. To make this comparison the authors used a cluster first route second math-heuristic approach. In the clustering phase, the authors experimented a new clustering function, while the routing phase consists in solving an instance of the Traveling Salesman Problem for each generated cluster. Finally, the authors applied the math-heuristic to a real case (the Italian municipality of Dolo near Venice) and compared the two delivery alternatives. The authors evaluate the performance considering two different fleets of vehicles, with small and medium capacity. In addition, since additional trips might be performed by consumers to pick up parcels at Lockers, a sensitivity analysis was carried out to analyse the sustainability of the proposed city logistics scheme.
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- © 2022 Pasquale Carotenuto, et al. Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Carotenuto, Pasquale
- Ceccato, Riccardo
- Gastaldi, Massimiliano
- Giordani, Stefano
- Rossi, Riccardo
- Salvatore, Alessio
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Conference:
- 24th EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting, EWGT 2021
- Location: Aveiro , Portugal
- Date: 2021-9-8 to 2021-9-10
- Publication Date: 2022
Language
- English
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- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 91-98
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Procedia
- Volume: 62
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 2352-1465
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
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Open Access (libre)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Electronic commerce; Freight traffic; Heuristic methods; Logistics; Pickup and delivery service; Routing
- Geographic Terms: Venice (Italy)
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;
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- Accession Number: 01842354
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 13 2022 9:37AM