Innovative crowdshipping model for e-commerce deliveries
Romo Rodriguez, Porfirio (2020)
Romo Rodriguez, Porfirio
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020112323854
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020112323854
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Cities have faced a rapidly growing demand for mobility due to the growth of e-commerce activities and the increase of population living in urban areas. It is expected that 68% of the world population will be living in cities by 2050. A substantial increase in parcel delivery has appeared as a major component of e-commerce growth, and this has become a challenge in the operations of logistics providers that are in charge of the man-agement of the last mile delivery and home delivery services. To mitigate some of the challenges of e-commerce, a term crowdshipping has been introduced to address some of the issues in urban areas. Crowdshipping can be described as the utilization of spare loading capacity on already existing transportation flows.
An online-based survey with an SPS approach was conducted with the participation of 54 university students for the collection of necessary data for the creation and proposition of an innovative crowdshipping model for e-commerce deliveries. Additionally, the iden-tification, analysis, and discussion of different crowdshipping models were studied in the thesis by means of an extensive literature review.
The combination of an extensive literature review and the collected data from the online-based survey have successfully assisted for the creation and suggestion of an in-novative crowdshipping model which focuses on e-commerce deliveries. The establish-ment of a University-based Hub with the participation of crowdsourced student’s has been suggested as a potential solution to cope with the demand of e-commerce deliver-ies.
The proposed innovative crowdshipping model has appeared to be a potential solution to improve the last mile delivery and capable to supply the demand of e-commerce deliver-ies. It was concluded that crowdshipping was recognized as a novel concept. Therefore, research for the further development of the introduced concept and the proposed crowdshipping model was recommended.
An online-based survey with an SPS approach was conducted with the participation of 54 university students for the collection of necessary data for the creation and proposition of an innovative crowdshipping model for e-commerce deliveries. Additionally, the iden-tification, analysis, and discussion of different crowdshipping models were studied in the thesis by means of an extensive literature review.
The combination of an extensive literature review and the collected data from the online-based survey have successfully assisted for the creation and suggestion of an in-novative crowdshipping model which focuses on e-commerce deliveries. The establish-ment of a University-based Hub with the participation of crowdsourced student’s has been suggested as a potential solution to cope with the demand of e-commerce deliver-ies.
The proposed innovative crowdshipping model has appeared to be a potential solution to improve the last mile delivery and capable to supply the demand of e-commerce deliver-ies. It was concluded that crowdshipping was recognized as a novel concept. Therefore, research for the further development of the introduced concept and the proposed crowdshipping model was recommended.