Open AccessNIGHT DELIVERIES AND CARRIER-LED CONSOLIDATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE URBAN GOODS DISTRIBUTION
Author(s) -
Miquel Estrada,
José Magín Campos Cacheda,
Francesc Robusté
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
transport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1648-4142
pISSN - 1648-3480
DOI - 10.3846/transport.2018.6058
Subject(s) - consolidation (business) , software deployment , environmental economics , distribution (mathematics) , transport engineering , range (aeronautics) , business , operations research , economics , computer science , engineering , finance , mathematical analysis , mathematics , aerospace engineering , operating system
Night distribution and consolidation strategies have been proposed in many cities to increase the efficiency of the urban goods distribution system and to reduce the external effects that it causes in terms of emissions. However, the deployment of these initiatives presents a new reallocation of costs and incomes among collaborative stakeholders that take part in. In this paper, an analytical model to estimate the new economic effects caused by these strategies on the involved agents is presented, based on continuous approximations. This model allows decision makers to estimate the transportation cost and emissions savings that will be obtained by each strategy as well as the range of retailer demand in which these strategies are not economically feasible. The results show that night distribution generally outperforms the carrier cost reduction and emissions savings, especially when large vehicles are used in night periods.