RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Reusing newspaper kiosks for last-mile delivery in urban areas
A1 González Varona, José Manuel
A1 Villafáñez Cardeñoso, Félix Antonio
A1 Acebes Senovilla, Fernando
A1 Redondo Castán, Alfonso
A1 Poza Garcia, David Jesús
K1 E-commerce
K1 Business logistics
K1 Urban geography
K1 Geografía urbana - España
K1 Urbanismo - España - Valladolid
K1 Newspaper kiosk
K1 5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
AB The current increase in e-commerce is generating growing problems in urban areas in terms of both traffic flow (increasing traffic, no parking spaces) and environmental issues (noise, atmospheric pollution, etc.). In parallel, an iconic element of historic districts is disappearing: more and more newspaper kiosks are closing their business as their work dwindles. In this scenario, the objective of this paper is to propose a model for last-mile parcel delivery that exploits the current available newspaper kiosk network by using them as parcel lockers. To demonstrate the benefits of this proposal, we map the kiosk network of the city of Valladolid (Spain), and compare the environmental impact of a traditional (door-to-door) delivery and the proposed model which reuses old kiosks as parcel lockers. The necessary steps to carry out simulations are described in detail so that experiments can be replicated in other cities that face the same issues.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58827
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58827
LA eng
NO Sustainability,  2020, Vol.12, Nº. 22, 9770
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 08-jul-2024