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A framework to organize public transport-based crowdshipping
Journal of Public Transportation, Vol.27, pp.1-13
2025
Abstract
Crowdshipping is an urban freight solution that involves members of the public to fulfill parcel deliveries, ideally along their precommitted journeys. This paper proposes a comprehensive framework to organize public transport-based crowdshipping by integrating the use of parcel lockers. This approach allows transit passengers to serve as crowdshippers, ensuring that parcel delivery demand aligns with crowdshipper availability, while considering locker capacity constraints. The framework involves formulating and solving parcel assignment and vehicle routing problems, incorporating matching for parcels and lockers, and using an iterative heuristic algorithm for optimal locker selection. The feasibility of the framework is demonstrated using real-world data, revealing significant benefits. With crowdshipping, a carrier can reduce delivery vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) and associated air emissions by up to 30%. This reduction only requires redirecting less than 9% of parcels to crowdshippers. Crowdshipping utilizing public transport has good potential to fulfill urban deliveries in a sustainable manner.
Details
- Title
- A framework to organize public transport-based crowdshipping
- Authors
- Meijing Zhang - Singapore University of Technology and DesignLynette Cheah (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Publication details
- Journal of Public Transportation, Vol.27, pp.1-13
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc.
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100133
- ISSN
- 2375-0901; 1077-291X
- Copyright note
- © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Data Availability
- The confidential parcel delivery data is not publicly available due to privacy concerns.
- Grant note
- Zhang’s research was partially funded by a grant from the Singapore Ministry of Education (T2-1712).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991155740202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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