Although Crowd-Shipping (CS) solutions have substantial potential for increasing the sustainability of urban deliveries they have not been successfully implementing in many cities. There is a need for enhancing understanding of the behaviour of travellers to design more viable schemes.
This seminar will describe behavioural models developed to investigate users willingness to participate in public transport based initiatives based on a survey that was conducted in the Sydney metropolitan area. Models were developed to explore different classes of participant characteristics and preferences for accepting CS delivery tasks, under different levels of offered incentives, package weights, and required detour distance at the destination.
Models that investigate the use of parcel lockers by crowdshippers at public transport terminals will also be presented. A probabilistic mathematical model with behavioural constraints was used to estimate the probability of accepting CS task by passengers will be outlined. Future research directions will also be explored
07/06/2024