Last-mile transport of fragmented deliveries: delivery preferences of nanostoreowners
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Low vehicle fill rates (VFRs) are a problem in urban freight transport. It is one of the factors that makes last-mile transport in urban areas relatively expensive compared with the rest of the supply chain. The problem of low VFRs does not occur in all supply chains, but it occurs primarily in the ones with fragmented freight flows. It leads to a proliferation of (smaller) freight vehicles in our cities (Arvidsson, 2013). Fragmentation is primarily driven by a high number of stops and small drop sizes (number of items per delivery). A supply chain that provides a lot of room for improvement in terms of efficiency, but is largely underexposed, is the last mile to independent retailers or nanostores (business-to-business; B2B). Different supply models are available, but these are generally characterized by logistical inefficiencies in the last mile
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TNO Identifier
952635
Publisher
Elsevier
Source title
Urban Freight Transportation Systems
Pages
115-133
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