Logistics global network connectivity and its determinants. A European City network analysis

Akhavan, Mina; Ghiara, Hilda; Mariotti, Ilaria; Sillig, Cécile

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.102624

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“…Despite the different population densities, the delivery destinations may be considered evenly and randomly spread in both cases (Seghezzi et al, 2020). For details about the areas, the reader is referred to Akhavan et al (2020) for Milan and Lagorio et al (2014) for Bergamo.…”

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Parcel lockers vs. home delivery: a model to compare last-mile delivery cost in urban and rural areas

Seghezzi

Siragusa

Mangiaracina

2022

IJPDLM

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PurposeThis paper investigates the economic performances of two business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce last-mile delivery options –parcel lockers (PLs) and traditional home delivery (HD) in contexts where e-commerce is still at its early stages. It analyses and compares two different implementation contexts, urban and rural areas.Design/methodology/approachThis study develops an analytical model that estimates delivery costs for both the PL and HD options. The model is applied to two base cases (representative of urban and rural areas in Italy), and sensitivity analyses are subsequently performed on a set of key variables/parameters (i.e. PL density, PL fill rate and PL annual costs). To support the model development and application, interviews with practitioners (Edwards et al., 2011) were performed.FindingsPLs imply lower delivery cost than HD, independently from the implementation area (urban or rural): advantages mainly derive from the higher delivery density and the drastic reduction of failed deliveries. Benefits entailed by PLs are more significant in rural areas due to lower PL investments and annual costs, as well as higher HD costs.Originality/valueThis paper offers insights to both academics and practitioners. On the academic side, it develops a model to compare the delivery cost of PL and HD, which includes the analysis of urban and rural contexts. This could serve as a platform for developing/informing future analytical/optimisation contributions. On the managerial side, it may support practitioners in making decisions about the implementation of PLs and HD, to benchmark their costs and to identify the main variables and parameters at play.

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Parcel lockers vs. home delivery: a model to compare last-mile delivery cost in urban and rural areas

Seghezzi

Siragusa

Mangiaracina

2022

IJPDLM

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“…The initial focus of this approach was on advanced producer services firms (e.g. law, consultancy, finance), yet more recently the interlocking world city network model (IWCNM) [ 33 , 34 ] has been applied to new sectors [ 21 , 27 ], and modified to accommodate new data sets [ 35 ], new methods [ 36 ], new theoretical questions [ 37 ], and to explore beyond the upper echelon of so-called global cities [ 38 , 39 ].…”

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Socio-spatial relations observed in the global city network of firms

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One of the prevailing approaches to the study of the global economy is the analysis of global city networks based on the activities of multinational firms. Research in this vein generally conceptualises cities as nodes, and the intra-firm relations between them as ties, forming the building blocks for globally scaled interurban networks. While such an approach has provided a valuable heuristic for understanding how cities are globally connected, and how the global economy can be conceived of as a network of cities, there is a lack of understanding as to how and why cities are connected, and which factors contribute to the existence of ties between cities. Here, we explain how five distinct socio-spatial dimensions contribute to global city network structure through their diverse effects on interurban dyads. Based on data from 13,583 multinational firms with 163,821 international subsidiary locations drawn from 208 global securities exchanges, we hypothesise how regional, linguistic, industrial, developmental, and command & control relations may contribute to network structure. We then test these by applying an exponential random graph model (ERGM) to explain how each dimension may contribute to cities’ embeddedness within the overall network. Though all are shown to shape interurban relations to some extent, we find that two cities sharing a common industrial base are more likely to be connected. The ERGM also reveals a strong core-periphery structure in that cities in middle- and low-income countries are more reliant on connectivity than those in high-income countries. Our findings indicate that, despite claims seeking to de-emphasise the top-heavy organisational structure of the global urban economic network, interurban relations are characterised by uneven global development in which socio-spatial embeddedness manifests through a combination of similarity (homophily) and difference (heterophily) as determined by heterogeneous power relationships underlying global systems of production, exchange and consumption.

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“…Castells first proposed the concept of “flow space”, which clarified that urban space is a spatial organization structure composed of flow elements such as people flow, logistics flow, capital flow, information flow, and technology flow [ 20 ]. After this point was put forward, many scholars analyzed the profound impact of factor flows on urban spatial organization, social environment changes, and residents’ life behavior from the perspectives of people flow, traffic flow, and logistics [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ]. However, the existing research mainly focuses on the flow of material carrier elements (people flow, product flow, traffic flow, etc.).…”

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Exploring the Spatiotemporal Evolution and Sustainable Driving Factors of Information Flow Network: A Public Search Attention Perspective

Zhu

Yuen

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The promotion of information flow reinforces the interactive cooperation and evolutionary process among cities. In the information age, public online search is a typical behavior of Internet society, which is the key to information flow generation and agglomeration. In this study, we attempt to explore the evolutionary characteristics of intercity networks driven by public online social behavior in the information age and construct an information flow network (IFN) from the perspective of public search attention. We also explore the evolution of the IFN in terms of the whole network, node hierarchy, and subgroup aggregation. Meanwhile, we also discuss the impact of the sustainable driving factors on the IFN. Finally, an empirical study was conducted in Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration (GPUA). Our results show that: (1) the information flow in GPUA fluctuating upward in the early study period and gradually decreasing in the later study period. However, the agglomeration degree of information flow in the urban agglomeration continues to increase. (2) The hierarchical structure of urban nodes in GPUA presents a trend of “high in the middle and low on both sides”, and the formation of subgroups is closely related to geographic location. (3) The driving factors all impacting the IFN include public ecology, resource investment, information infrastructure, and economic foundation. This study provides theoretical and practical support for exploring the intercity network and promotes the sustainable urban development.

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Logistics global network connectivity and its determinants. A European City network analysis

Cited by 38 publications

References 30 publications

Parcel lockers vs. home delivery: a model to compare last-mile delivery cost in urban and rural areas

Parcel lockers vs. home delivery: a model to compare last-mile delivery cost in urban and rural areas

Socio-spatial relations observed in the global city network of firms

Exploring the Spatiotemporal Evolution and Sustainable Driving Factors of Information Flow Network: A Public Search Attention Perspective

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