Developing a sustainable concept for urban last-mile delivery
- 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.
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| Author: | Patrick SiegfriedORCiD, John Jiyuan Zhang |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:tr5-2088 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4236/ojbm.2021.91015 |
| Parent Title (English): | Open Journal of Business and Management |
| Publisher: | Scientific Research Publishing |
| Document Type: | Article (specialist journals) |
| Language: | English |
| Date of OPUS upload: | 2023/01/17 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/01/25 |
| Publishing University: | Hochschule Trier |
| Release Date: | 2023/01/17 |
| Tag: | e-commerce; last-mile delivery; logistic solution; parcel delivery; sustainability; sustainable delivery; urban logistic |
| GND Keyword: | Nachhaltigkeit; Logistik; Stadt; City-Logistik; Lieferservice; Paketdienst; Electronic Commerce |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 20 |
| First Page: | 268 |
| Last Page: | 287 |
| Departments: | FB Bauen + Leben |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
