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

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

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: E-commerce; Last-mile delivery; Logistic solution; Parcel shipping; Transport; Sustainability; Urban logistic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L81 O18 Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06-02
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Published in Journal of Social Sciences 1.4(2021): pp. 6-11

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