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

Siegfried, Patrick and Michel, Alex and Tänzler, Jan and Zhang, John Jiyuan (2021): Analyzing Sustainability Issues in Urban Logistics in the Context of Growth of E-Commerce. Published in: Journal of Social Sciences , Vol. 4, No. 1 (2 June 2021): pp. 6-11.

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.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: E-commerce, Last-mile delivery, Logistic solution, Parcel shipping, Transport, Sustainability, Urban logistic
• Subjects: L - Industrial Organization > L8 - Industry Studies: Services > L81 - Retail and Wholesale Trade ; e-Commerce; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q0 - General > Q01 - Sustainable Development

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