Accessibility and Equity Analysis of Transit Facility Sites for Common Carrier Parcel Lockers

Transit goals have typically focused on commuter trips but facilitating urban last mile freight logistics is a potential strategy to increase transit ridership and mitigate the demands of parcel distribution on the transportation network. Presently, most parcel lockers operate out of private businesses, but consumer surveys have found that transit users may be interested in locker facilities at transit facilities. The implementation of an unmanned, secure, common carrier parcel locker system could have benefits for non-transit users as well. This research presents a multiple-criteria approach for analyzing the potential of public transportation facilities as hosts for a common carrier locker system. Several accessibility and equity metrics, including ridership, mode of transportation, spatial distribution, and sociodemographic profiles of coverage areas are utilized. A case study utilizing real-word data from the Portland, OR region and its transit facilities is used to illustrate accessibility and equity tradeoffs. The results demonstrate that multiple facility types have the potential to host a locker system but there are complex accessibility and equity tradeoffs to be considered by stakeholders and policy makers when prioritizing locations.

Selecting Freight Transportation Modes in Last-Mile Urban Distribution in Pamplona (Spain): An Option for Drone Delivery in Smart Cities

Urban distribution in medium-sized cities faces a major challenge, mainly when deliveries are difficult in the city center due to: an increase of e-commerce, weak public transportation system, and the promotion of urban sustainability plans. As a result, private cars, public transportation, and freight transportation compete for the same space. This paper analyses the current state for freight logistics in the city center of Pamplona (Spain) and proposes alternative transportation routes and transportation modes in the last-mile city center distribution according to different criteria evaluated by residents. An analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was developed. A number of alternatives have been assessed considering routes and transportation modes: the shortest route criterion and avoiding some city center area policies are combined with traditional van-based, bike, and aerial (drone) distribution protocols for delivering parcels and bar/restaurant supplies. These alternatives have been evaluated within a multicriteria framework in which economic, environmental, and social objectives are considered at the same time. The point in this multicriteria framework is that the criteria/alternative AHP weights and priorities have been set according to a survey deployed in the city of Pamplona (Navarre, Spain). The survey and AHP results show the preference for the use of drone or bike distribution in city center in order to reduce social and environmental issues.

A Literature Review, Container Shipping Supply Chain: Planning Problems and Research Opportunities

This paper provides an overview of the container shipping supply chain (CSSC) by taking a logistics perspective, covering all major value-adding segments in CSSC including freight logistics, container logistics, vessel logistics, port/terminal logistics, and inland transport logistics. The main planning problems and research opportunities in each logistics segment are reviewed and discussed to promote further research. Moreover, the two most important challenges in CSSC, digitalization and decarbonization, are explained and discussed in detail. We raise awareness of the extreme fragmentation of CSSC that causes inefficient operations. A pathway to digitalize container shipping is proposed that requires the applications of digital technologies in various business processes across five logistics segments, and change in behaviors and relationships of stakeholders in the supply chain. We recognize that shipping decarbonization is likely to take diverse pathways with different fuel/energy systems for ships and ports. This gives rise to more research and application opportunities in the highly uncertain and complex CSSC environment.

Mediating Effect of Organizational Learning Capacity on the Relationship between Relational Embeddedness and Innovation Performance in Freight Logistics Service

Cooperative innovation has become a critical method for freight logistics firms in supply chain management. The previous study has proved that relational embeddedness (RE) has a positive effect on service innovation performance. However, the influence of organizational learning capacity (OLC) has been widely ignored. This study focuses on explaining the mechanism of OLC on the relationship between RE and innovation performance of freight logistics service (IPFLS). Firstly, a theoretical model is constructed based on Social Network Theory, and four research hypotheses are presented. Secondly, a sample of 236 respondents from freight logistics firms in China is analyzed to test the hypotheses. Finally, several management implications and recommendations are suggested. The research results demonstrate that both RE and OLC have positive effects on IPFLS. Meanwhile, OLC partially mediates the relationship between RE and IPFLS. The findings provide practical guidance for managers to strengthen the relationship with partners and enhance OLC.

Freight-Logistics-as-a-Service – Innovative Geschäftsmodelle für ein datengetriebenes Transportmanagement

ZusammenfassungDie Gestaltung digitaler Geschäftsmodelle basiert auf dem disruptiven Potenzial von technologischen Innovationen, das in unterschiedlichen Branchen genutzt wird. Der Logistik kommt in Anbetracht ihrer essentiellen Querschnittfunktion sowie der Entstehung umfangreicher Daten durch den Einsatz verschiedener IT-Systeme für die Abwicklung von Frachttransporten eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Derzeitige Debatten werden mit Blick auf das Cloud-Computing sowie die Merkmale neu entstehender digitaler Plattformen geführt. Insbesondere für das Transportmanagement im Güterkraftverkehr entstehen datenbasierte as-a-Service Konzepte, die das tradierte Geschäftsmodell von Logistikdienstleistern sowie das Geschäftsfeld der Anbieter von Transportmanagementsystemen (TMS) attackieren. Auffällig ist, dass einer prozessorientierten Betrachtung der cloudbasierten Anwendungssysteme bislang wenig Aufmerksamkeit entgegengebracht wurde. In diesem Beitrag soll ein vertieftes Verständnis für Fracht-Plattformen im Güterverkehr erzeugt werden. Anhand von Experteninterviews wird zunächst das Konzept Freight-Logistics-as-a-Service (FLaaS) für ein datengetriebenes Transportmanagement (DTM) entworfen. Im Anschluss werden auf Grundlage des Business Model Canvas die strategischen Betrachtungen der digitalen Plattformen um Aspekte der Geschäftsmodellentwicklung der Datendienstleister erweitert. Eine intelligente Nutzung des Datenpotentials zeigt sich insbesondere in der Verbesserung der Transparenz sowie der optimierten Auslastung der verfügbaren Transportressourcen. Durch das präsentierte Konzept FLaaS und das betrachtete cloudbasierte Geschäftsmodell werden abschließend strategische Handlungsmaßnahmen formuliert. Die Aspekte Datenkompetenz, Datenstrategie und Kollaboration sind für die Akteure von hoher Relevanz, um eine nachhaltige und wertschöpfende Gestaltung von datengetriebenen Transportketten zu erreichen.

An Analysis of Blockchain Adoption in Supply Chains Between 2010 and 2020

In this research, the evolution of blockchain applied to supply chains has been mapped from the inception of the technology until June 2020, utilizing primarily public data sources. We have analyzed 271 blockchain projects on parameters such as their inception dates, types of blockchain, status, sectors applied to and type of organization that founded the project. We confirm generally understood trends in the blockchain market with new projects following the industry’s general hype and funding levels. We observe most activity in the Agriculture/Grocery sector and the Freight/Logistics sector. We see the shift of market interest from private companies (startups) to public companies and consortia and the change in blockchain adoption from Ethereum to Hyperledger. Finally, we observe more market-ready solutions and fewer inactive projects for Hyperledger-based projects than Ethereum-based projects.

Optimization of Internet of Things E-Commerce Logistics Cloud Service Platform Based on Mobile Communication

E-commerce conceivable future trade, consumption, and service is a new digital employer mode. Therefore, in order to decorate the customary natural environment of operation, it is quintessential to get rid of the preferred desktop in the true field, create a social logistics and transportation administration computing device with commodity agents and distributors as the key features, and mix freight logistics, business enterprise approach waft and data waft advertising and marketing, and advertising and marketing organically. The notion of e-commerce logistics looks alongside the enchantment vogue of neighborhood technological knowledge and social demand. It is an integral part of ending e-commerce authentic economic value. All kinds of cell networks clear up the problem of data flow communication; in the technological know-how of telephone network, digital cost solves the bother of capital flow; at present, logistics is however a long-standing problem of e-commerce. Logistics has grown to be the last and entirely bottleneck of e-commerce. If logistics cannot adapt to the enchantment of e-commerce, it may also additionally lead to the slow enchantment of e-commerce. The purpose of this paper is to supply an Internet of things (IoT) e-commerce logistics cloud provider platform based totally absolutely on cell communication, which can be combined with e-commerce and beautify the transport tempo of e-commerce. This paper moreover optimizes the e-commerce logistics system, so that it can combine with e-commerce to increase out the distribution of goods, the distribution tempo of e-commerce is doubled, and e-commerce can in a similar fashion develop rapidly.