by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Failed deliveries are one of the most stubborn headaches in urban logistics. The courier arrives, nobody’s home, and the whole costly cycle begins again: a second attempt, extra fuel, more emissions, and a frustrated customer. A new study published in Research in Transportation Economics (Escudero-Santana et al., 2026) takes a fresh angle on this problem: …
DHL eCommerce and Poste Italiane are celebrating the launch of Locker Italia, a joint venture dedicated to creating a modern and convenient parcel locker network across Italy. This milestone marks one year since the two companies formed their strategic partnership in the Italian and international parcel market. The official launch event occurred on September 16 …
lnPost reports 54% year-on-year revenue growth in H1 2021 and 30% revenue growth in Q2 2021, with continued adjusted EBITDA margin expansion and improvement in cash conversion. Inpost reported a loss of 40 mln euros in the first half of 2021. The total number of Automated Parcel Machines (APM) increased by 56% year-on-year to 15.572, with 2 …
To reduce congestion, environmental damage, and negative health impact in large urban areas plenty of novel concepts for last-mile distribution have been innovated in recent years. The concept treated in this paper is mobile parcel lockers that are able to change their locations during the day, either autonomously or moved by a human driver.
Singapore is leading the way in last-mile innovation. Singapore is planning a national locker network of 1,000 locations open to all the logistics players and to all e-commerce platforms. Results from a pilot in December 2018 showed that a driver was able to deliver up to 250 parcels per day to the parcel lockers, about four …
A new paper aims at evaluating the environmental and economic impacts of a crowdshipping platform in cities. The study refers to the city of Rome and considers crowdshipping based on the use of the mass transit network of the city, where crowdshippers pick-up/drop-off goods in automated parcel lockers located either inside the transit stations or in their …
Micro-shopping trips, defined as trips that take less than five minutes, are becoming increasingly common thanks to grocery services that let customers order online and pick up in-store. The increase is attributed to lockers, where shoppers can pick up preordered items. Bryan Pearson reports about it in Forbes.