Crowdshipping: Evaluating its Impacts on Travel Behavior
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2019-11-01
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Corporate Contributors:United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; City University of New York. University Transportation Research Center ; New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
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Edition:Final, Aug 2016- Nov. 2019
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Abstract:The rapid emergence of direct-to-home delivery models has quickly changed the spatial and temporal distribution of both individual travelers’ trips and of urban goods movements. A growing number of household and consumer products are now being delivered directly to homes rather than being picked up in retail stores. For commercial carriers, this new last-mile is often expensive, as small shipments must be moved to geographically dispersed residences, often within increasingly constrained time windows. An emerging method of goods movement that may help to address this inefficiency is crowdshipping. Crowdshipping is a peer-to-peer delivery platform consisting of carriers and requesters. As a result of these tradeoffs, neither the potential market for crowdshipping nor the possible impacts of crowdshipping on the upstream and downstream daily travel behavior of the requester or the carrier are well understood. Increased adoption of crowdshipping will have implications for both commercial freight demand and passenger travel demand; while understanding both will be critical to assessing the potential benefits of crowdshipping, this study aims primarily to provide insights specifically on the impacts of crowdshipping on personal travel behavior. While a number of travel behavior researchers have studied the general relationship between e-commerce and trips to the retail store, none have comprehensively assessed crowdshipping, the impacts of crowdshipping on trip chaining behavior of individual participants, or the potential replacement activities that may occur when additional time is made available for the requester through the elimination of store trips.
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