Collaboration in the last mile: evidence from grocery deliveries

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dc.contributor.authorAktas, Emel
dc.contributor.authorBourlakis, Michael
dc.contributor.authorZissis, Dimitris
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-04T14:40:16Z
dc.date.available2020-05-04T14:40:16Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-12
dc.description.abstractThe grocery sector has transitioned into an omnichannel operating mode, allowing consumers to buy online and have their order delivered to their chosen address. The last mile delivery service leads to avoidable inefficiencies such as low asset utilisation and repeated trips to nearby neighbourhoods, increasing vehicle emissions, traffic, and operational costs. Combining historical order and delivery data of an online grocery retailer with secondary data publicly available on other retailers, we employ Monte Carlo simulation to estimate grocery home delivery demand per 1-hour time windows. We use the simulation output as an input to daily vehicle routing problem instances under independent and collaborative last mile delivery operation to estimate the impact of collaboration. Our analyses show distance savings of around 17% and route reduction of around 22%. These results can support policies incentivising vehicle and infrastructure sharing settings and decoupling the last mile delivery from the core grocery retail services.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAktas E, Bourlakis M, Zissis D. (2021) Collaboration in the last mile: evidence from grocery deliveries. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, Volume 24, Issue 3, 2021, pp. 227-241en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1367-5567
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2020.1740660
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/15429
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectMonte Carlo simulationen_UK
dc.subjectvehicle routingen_UK
dc.subjectecommerceen_UK
dc.subjectUK grocery sectoren_UK
dc.subjectlast mile deliveryen_UK
dc.subjectCollaborationen_UK
dc.titleCollaboration in the last mile: evidence from grocery deliveriesen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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