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Optimising Pathology Logistics with Shared-Fleet Passenger and Freight Services: A Case Study on the Isle of Wight, UK Open
This study presents an optimisation algorithm to solve a collaborative vehicle routing problem with time windows. The algorithm was developed and tested on a real-world case study to investigate the potential for a shared-fleet operation i…
View article: Investigating the Crash Protection Performance of a Medical Carrier Bag for Drone Transport
Investigating the Crash Protection Performance of a Medical Carrier Bag for Drone Transport Open
Background: Drone transport regulations in Europe require a crash-protected container (CPC) to be used for the carriage of dangerous goods. With increasing interest in the use of drones for medical logistics, the motivation behind this res…
Exploring fairness in food delivery routing and scheduling problems Open
Demand for delivery of take-away meals to customers has been growing worldwide, with deliveries often performed by non-specialised gig economy couriers working for online platform operators such as Deliveroo or Just Eat. This has led to th…
Evaluating the Feasibility of a Shared-Fleet Operation in Healthcare Logistics between Public Organisations Open
Shared-fleet logistics involves collaboration between two or more companies to combine workloads and vehicle capacity to improve vehicle utilisation and transport efficiency and to reduce costs. This study considers the potential environme…
Improving last-mile parcel delivery through shared consolidation and portering: A case study in London Open
Based on the insights derived from practical trials conducted with carriers operating in London, this article proposes a last-mile delivery model that involves both driving and walking. A particularly innovative aspect of the model is the …
The sustainability of the gig economy food delivery system (Deliveroo, UberEATS and Just-Eat): Histories and futures of rebound, lock-in and path dependency Open
Online food delivery has transformed the last-mile of food and grocery delivery, with unnoticed yet often significant impacts upon the transport and logistics network. This new model of food delivery is not just increasing congestion in ur…
Combining on-foot porters with vans for last-mile parcel deliveries: results of a study in central London Open
Parcel delivery operations in central London currently consist of drivers using vans. Drivers travel by road, leaving their vehicle parked at the kerbside for up to 60% of the round time while making deliveries on-foot to consignees, walki…
Optimised solutions to the last-mile delivery problem in London using a combination of walking and driving Open
Inspired by actual parcel delivery operations in London, this paper describes a two-echelon distribution system that combines the use of driving and walking as part of last-mile deliveries in urban areas for a single driver. The paper pres…
Quantifying environmental and financial benefits of using porters and cycle couriers for last-mile parcel delivery Open
Parcel carriers face increasingly difficult operating conditions in busy metropolitan areas due to growing consumer demand for ever faster delivery services and having to cope with traffic congestion and city authority measures that may re…
Waste Collection Open
Municipal solid waste must be collected in efficient and environmentally sound ways. This chapter describes the waste materials that are collected, the collection systems that are typically used, and the types of vehicles and other equipme…
Optimising parcel deliveries in London using dual-mode routing Open
Last-mile delivery operations are complex, and the conventional way of using a single mode of delivery (e.g. driving) is not necessarily an efficient strategy. This paper describes a two-level parcel distribution model that combines walkin…
ICT for Sustainable Last-Mile Logistics: Data, People and Parcels Open
In this paper we present a vision of how ICT can be leveraged to help combat the impact on pollution, congestion and carbon emissions contributed by the parcel delivery sector. This is timely given annual growth in parcel deliveries, espec…
Transforming Last-mile Logistics Open
Road congestion, air pollution and sustainability are increasingly important in major cities. We look to understand how last-mile deliveries in the parcel sector are impacting our roads. Using formative field work and quantitative analysis…
View article: Impact and process assessment of the seven CITYLAB implementations
Impact and process assessment of the seven CITYLAB implementations Open
CITYLAB focuses on four axes that call for improvement and intervention:\n•Highly fragmented last-mile deliveries in city centres\n•Inefficient deliveries to large freight attractors and public administrations\n•Urban waste, return trips a…
View article: Sustainability analysis of the CITYLAB solutions
Sustainability analysis of the CITYLAB solutions Open
The objective of the CITYLAB project is to develop knowledge and solutions that result in roll-out, upscaling and further uptake of cost effective strategies, measures and tools for emission free city logistics. CITYLAB includes a set of L…
Getting to Common Ground: A Comparison of Ontario, Canada’s Provincial Policy Statement and the Auckland Council Regional Policy Statement with Respect to Indigenous Peoples Open
Indigenous rights are crucial to contemporary land use planning and policy in settler states. This article comparatively analyzes the manifest and latent content of the 2014 Provincial Policy Statement of Ontario, Canada (PPS) and the 1999…
View article: Using automatic number plate recognition data to investigate the regularity of vehicle arrivals
Using automatic number plate recognition data to investigate the regularity of vehicle arrivals Open
This paper uses automatically-recorded vehicle number plate data from a network of 22 cameras in Dorset, UK, to investigate the extent to which regular trip making can be determined using the regularity of individual vehicle arrival times …