ANALYZING SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES IN URBAN LOGISTICS IN THE CONTEXT OF GROWTH OF E-COMMERCE
ANALYZING SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES IN URBAN LOGISTICS IN THE CONTEXT OF GROWTH OF E-COMMERCE
Author(s): Patrick Siegfried, Alex Michel, Jan Tänzler, John Jiyuan ZhangSubject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Socio-Economic Research, Transport / Logistics
Published by: Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei
Keywords: E-commerce; Last-mile delivery; Logistic solution; Parcel shipping; Transport; Sustainability; Urban logistic;
Summary/Abstract: E-commerce has been keeping fast increasing worldwide since beginning of the 21st century. Rapid growth of e-commerce & parcel shipping is a booming business. 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.
Journal: Journal of Social Sciences
- Issue Year: IV/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 6-11
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English