2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.210
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Shipping outside the box. Environmental impact and stakeholder analysis of a crowd logistics platform in Belgium

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“…The most hotly debated topics are outsourcing and crowd shipping (CS). CS, proposed for the last-mile delivery problem, is a concept that means the parcels and passengers are co-transported along a passenger trip [85]. According to Ameknassi et al [86], freight transportation, warehousing, and reverse logistics are the three major outsourced logistics activities.…”
Section: Planning Policy and Management Research Of Gandslmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The most hotly debated topics are outsourcing and crowd shipping (CS). CS, proposed for the last-mile delivery problem, is a concept that means the parcels and passengers are co-transported along a passenger trip [85]. According to Ameknassi et al [86], freight transportation, warehousing, and reverse logistics are the three major outsourced logistics activities.…”
Section: Planning Policy and Management Research Of Gandslmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is very important to indicate that pure CL activity should use existing flows-it is one of the necessary conditions of this phenomenon [11]. If existing flows are used for services fulfilment, this will contribute to more sustainable city logistics [56].…”
Section: Crowdsourcing In Logisticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Actually, various stakeholders operating in cities interact, compete, and cooperate, which can be characterized by heterogeneous scopes (see Table 1) [11,68]. Regarding the sustainability context of the urban transport system, authorities represent environmental objectives-according to European Union (EU) transport policy issues-as well-but social ones at a lower level-in striving to provide good quality of life and availability of the PT services to city residents [5,7,13,61].…”
Section: Stakeholders In the Urban Transport Systemmentioning
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“…Some researches have focused on environmental impacts. Buldeo et al [24] compared the external costs imposed on society when delivering parcels with crowdshipping and professional systems, finding that uncontrolled use of the platform (car-trips dedicated to delivering parcels) results in higher external transport costs and thus higher emissions. Therefore, crowd logistics could offer a sustainable alternative only if the crowd exploits existing car trips.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%