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TY - GEN
T1 - ICT for Sustainable Last-Mile Logistics
T2 - ICT4S 2018
AU - Bates, Oliver Emile Glaves
AU - Friday, Adrian John
AU - Allen, Julian
AU - McLeod, Fraser
AU - Cherrett, Tom
AU - Wise, Sarah
AU - Piecyk, Maja
AU - Piotrowska, Marzena
AU - Bektas, Tolga
AU - Nguyen, Thuba
PY - 2018/5/10
Y1 - 2018/5/10
N2 - In this paper we present a vision of how ICT can be leveraged to help combat the impact on pollution, congestion and carbon emissions contributed by the parcel delivery sector. This is timely given annual growth in parcel deliveries, especially same-day deliveries, and the need to inform initiatives to clean up our cities such as the sales ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles in the UK by 2040. Our insights are informed by research on parcel logistics in Central London, leveraging a data set of parcel manifests spanning 6 months. To understand the impact of growing e-commerce trends on parcel deliveries we provide a mixed methods case study leveraging data-driven analysis and qualitative fieldwork to demonstrate how ICT can uncover the impact of parcel deliveries on delivery drivers and their delivery rounds during seasonal deliveries (or “the silly season”). We finish by discussing key opportunities for intervention and further research in ICT4S and co-created Smart Cities, connecting our findings with existing research and data as a call to the ICT4S community to help tackle the growth in carbon emissions, pollution and congestion linked to parcel deliveries.
AB - In this paper we present a vision of how ICT can be leveraged to help combat the impact on pollution, congestion and carbon emissions contributed by the parcel delivery sector. This is timely given annual growth in parcel deliveries, especially same-day deliveries, and the need to inform initiatives to clean up our cities such as the sales ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles in the UK by 2040. Our insights are informed by research on parcel logistics in Central London, leveraging a data set of parcel manifests spanning 6 months. To understand the impact of growing e-commerce trends on parcel deliveries we provide a mixed methods case study leveraging data-driven analysis and qualitative fieldwork to demonstrate how ICT can uncover the impact of parcel deliveries on delivery drivers and their delivery rounds during seasonal deliveries (or “the silly season”). We finish by discussing key opportunities for intervention and further research in ICT4S and co-created Smart Cities, connecting our findings with existing research and data as a call to the ICT4S community to help tackle the growth in carbon emissions, pollution and congestion linked to parcel deliveries.
KW - sustainability
KW - logistics
KW - parcel sector
KW - parcel demand
KW - last mile logistics
KW - stakeholder engagement
KW - case study
KW - smart cities
KW - policy makers
KW - decision support
KW - kerb side optimisation
KW - air pollution
U2 - 10.29007/67nl
DO - 10.29007/67nl
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
T3 - EPiC Series in Computing
SP - 49
EP - 67
BT - ICT4S2018. 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability,
A2 - Penzenstadler, Birgit
A2 - Easterbrook, Steve
A2 - Venters, Colin
A2 - Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque
PB - EasyChair
Y2 - 14 May 2018
ER -