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Analyzing Sustainability Issues in Urban Logistics in the Context of Growth of E-Commerce

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  • Siegfried, Patrick
  • Michel, Alex
  • Tänzler, Jan
  • Zhang, John Jiyuan

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E-commerce has been keeping fast increasing worldwide since beginning of the 21st century. While rapid growth of e-commerce, parcel shipping is a booming business [1]. However, how to handle with many hard-to-solve sustainability issues of transport in urban areas, is becoming a serious challenge for urban logistic sector and numerous stakeholders. The sustainability issues contain the problems of air pollution, congestion, and sub-contractors. This paper reported those issues in the context of growth of e-commerce and analyzed their efforts on the sustainable urban logistics development.

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  • Siegfried, Patrick & Michel, Alex & Tänzler, Jan & Zhang, John Jiyuan, 2021. "Analyzing Sustainability Issues in Urban Logistics in the Context of Growth of E-Commerce," MPRA Paper 111396, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:111396
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    1. Henri Kervola & Erika Kallionpää & Heikki Liimatainen, 2022. "Delivering Goods Using a Baby Pram: The Sustainability of Last-Mile Logistics Business Models," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-18, October.

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    Keywords

    E-commerce; Last-mile delivery; Logistic solution; Parcel shipping; Transport; Sustainability; Urban logistic;
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    JEL classification:

    • L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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