Urban freight last mile logistics—Challenges and opportunities to improve sustainability: A literature review

T Bosona - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Last mile logistics (LML) is the least efficient and complex part of supply chain. The main
objective of this study was to identify major challenges of urban freight LML and …

A review of last mile logistics innovations in an externalities cost reduction vision

L Ranieri, S Digiesi, B Silvestri, M Roccotelli - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a review of the recent scientific literature contributions on innovative strategies
for last mile logistics, focusing on externalities cost reduction, is presented. Transport is …

Towards enhancing the last-mile delivery: An effective crowd-tasking model with scalable solutions

Y Wang, D Zhang, Q Liu, F Shen, LH Lee - Transportation Research Part E …, 2016 - Elsevier
In urban logistics, the last-mile delivery from the warehouse to the consumer's home has
become more and more challenging with the continuous growth of E-commerce. It requires …

The integration of passenger and freight transport for first-last mile operations

F Bruzzone, F Cavallaro, S Nocera - Transport policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The “First-Last Mile” problem (FLM) is a relevant transport issue. According to the
Green Paper on Urban Mobility, the combination of passenger and freight flows may be a …

Using customer-related data to enhance e-grocery home delivery

S Pan, V Giannikas, Y Han, E Grover-Silva… - … Management & Data …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The development of e-grocery allows people to purchase food online and benefit
from home delivery service. Nevertheless, a high rate of failed deliveries due to the …

Minimizing the trade-off between sustainability and cost effective performance by using autonomous vehicles

V Gružauskas, S Baskutis, V Navickas - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
The activities of the most enterprises are related to the difficulties while adapting to the
current market demand, therefore, it is vitally important to define and solve the arising …

Last mile logistics: Research trends and needs

E Demir, A Syntetos… - IMA Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Aspiring green agendas in conjunction with tremendous economic pressures are resulting in
an increased attention to the environment and technological innovations for improving …

Who is interested in a crowdsourced last mile? A segmentation of attitudinal profiles

HB Rai, S Verlinde, C Macharis - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Online and omnichannel retail developments placed logistics at the front-end of consumers'
purchase journeys. Particularly the last mile of the supply chain increasingly affects …

Drone as a Service (DaaS) in promoting cleaner agricultural production and Circular Economy for ethical Sustainable Supply Chain development

K Mahroof, A Omar, NP Rana, U Sivarajah… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to grow the food the world needs, there is a pressing need to gain a more detailed
understanding of how innovative solutions can be incorporated into the agricultural supply …

The last mile issue and urban logistics: choosing parcel machines in the context of the ecological attitudes of the Y generation consumers purchasing online

M Moroz, Z Polkowski - Transportation Research Procedia, 2016 - Elsevier
The dynamic development of electronic commerce is affecting the manner of the
organization of urban logistics. The last mile issue, that is the problem of the final stage of …