In the wake of e-commerce and its successful diffusion in most commercial activities, last-
mile distribution causes more and more trouble in urban areas all around the globe …

Crowd-Ship** (CS) solutions have been gaining popularity in industry and academia.
Despite numerous CS platforms having been introduced in the real world, only a limited …

This paper contributes to the emerging body of research on crowdship**, which is a
collaborative strategy that distributes delivery tasks to a mass of actors that act as ordinary …

Crowd-ship** promises social, economic, and environmental benefits covering a range of
stakeholders. Yet, at the same time, many crowd-ship** initiatives face multiple barriers …

This paper aims at understanding and evaluating the environmental and economic impacts
of a crowdship** platform in urban areas. The investigation refers to the city of Rome and …

Crowdship** is increasingly known as a sustainable solution to address the challenges of
last mile delivery (LMD) in urban areas. While employing the crowd to perform LMD appears …

The sharing economy is estimated to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the global
economy and is rapidly growing. However, trust-based commercial sharing—the …

The key challenge of expensive optimization problems (EOP) is that evaluating the true
fitness value of the solution is computationally expensive. A common method to deal with …

An emerging stream of Crowd-Ship** (CS) solutions focuses on existing momentum in
Public Transportation (PT) to ship viable delivery packages by PT passengers. Few studies …

Crowdsourced delivery services (crowdship**) represent a ship** alternative to
traditional delivery systems, particularly suitable for e-commerce. Although some benefits in …