TY  - JOUR
A1  - Siegfried, Patrick
A1  - Zhang, John Jiyuan
T1  - Developing a sustainable concept for urban last-mile delivery
T2  - Open Journal of Business and Management
N2  - In relation to the fast development of e-commerce and rapid increasing of parcels, urban logistic sector is facing the challenge of sustainability. Especially, last-mile delivery as the last step of goods transport, it connects to customers’ satisfaction, cost efficiency of logistic companies, and more and more public expectations to sustainability of urban logistics. To handle with the complexity of urban logistics conditions, governments and logistics companies should develop a co-operating strategy for sustainability of urban last-mile delivery. This paper is based on data collection from the long-term empirical research and a survey to the e-commerce users in Germany and China to develop a sustainable concept for the urban last-mile delivery. The key to the development of concept is to create a balance among the requirements of customers, the competition abilities of logistics companies and the public interest.
KW  - Nachhaltigkeit
KW  - Logistik
KW  - Stadt
KW  - City-Logistik
KW  - Lieferservice
KW  - Paketdienst
KW  - last-mile delivery
KW  - urban logistic
KW  - sustainability
KW  - sustainable delivery
KW  - e-commerce
KW  - parcel delivery
KW  - logistic solution
KW  - Electronic Commerce
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://hst.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/208
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:tr5-2088
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
SP  - 268
EP  - 287
PB  - Scientific Research Publishing
ER  -