Crowdsourced delivery: A review of platforms and academic literature

A Alnaggar, F Gzara, JH Bookbinder - Omega, 2021 - Elsevier
Crowdsourced delivery systems have created many new industry last-mile delivery solutions
and have received some attention in the academic literature. In this review paper, we …

Crowdshipping by employees of distribution centers: Optimization approaches for matching supply and demand

N Boysen, S Emde, S Schwerdfeger - European Journal of Operational …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seeing the huge success of sharing platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb, where owners
of under-used assets are connected with users willing to pay for the use of these assets, it is …

Integrating parcel deliveries into a ride-pooling service—An agent-based simulation study

F Fehn, R Engelhardt, F Dandl, K Bogenberger… - … Research Part A: Policy …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines the integration of freight delivery into the passenger transport of an on-
demand ride-pooling service. The goal of this research is to use existing passenger trips for …

Crowdsourced logistics: The pickup and delivery problem with transshipments and occasional drivers

S Voigt, H Kuhn - Networks, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article considers a setting in which a courier, express, and parcel service provider
operates a fleet of vehicles with regular drivers (RDs) to ship parcels from pickup to delivery …

Crowdsourcing mode evaluation for parcel delivery service platforms

L Zhen, Y Wu, S Wang, W Yi - International Journal of Production …, 2021 - Elsevier
The fast-growing practice of e-commerce implies a strong increase in the urban parcel
delivery, which in turn creates significant pressure on last-mile city logistics. Because the …

[HTML][HTML] Market potential of bicycle crowdshipping: A two-sided acceptance analysis

S Wicaksono, X Lin, LA Tavasszy - Research in Transportation Business & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Crowdshipping has recently emerged as a sustainable option for urban parcel delivery,
where transport tasks are carried out by regular citizens who are engaged in a passenger …

Supplier menus for dynamic matching in peer-to-peer transportation platforms

R Ausseil, JA Pazour, MW Ulmer - Transportation Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Peer-to-peer transportation platforms dynamically match requests (eg, a ride, a delivery) to
independent suppliers who are not employed nor controlled by the platform. Thus, the …

Optimizing driver menus under stochastic selection behavior for ridesharing and crowdsourced delivery

H Horner, J Pazour, JE Mitchell - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Peer-to-peer logistics platforms coordinate independent drivers to fulfill requests for last mile
delivery and ridesharing. To balance demand-side performance with driver autonomy, a …

An optimal ride sharing recommendation framework for carpooling services

H Qadir, O Khalid, MUS Khan, AUR Khan… - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Carpooling services allow drivers to share rides with other passengers. This helps in
reducing the passengers' fares and time, as well as traffic congestion and increases the …

Exploring the potential impact of crowdshipping using public transport in Singapore

M Zhang, L Cheah… - Transportation Research …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Because of increased urbanization and a rise in e-commerce activities, the demand for
freight transport in cities is growing. E-retailers and logistics companies face the challenge of …