Roel Gevaers

University of Antwerp | UA · Department of Transport and Regional Economics

Supply chain planning requires decision-making at all levels, especially in the new normal of intervened supply networks. The integration of strategic network design and operational routing decisions has been widely studied in the literature as the location-routing problem (LRP). However, the LRP does not consider the differences in the planning ho...

Supply chain management includes strategic, tactical, and operational decisions for long, medium, and short-term planning. Strategic decisions, such as network design, and operational decisions, such as last-mile routing, have mutual implications. Therefore, modelling them separately can lead to sub-optimal solutions. The integrated modelling of th...

Reducing carbon and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a major challenge in the transportation and logistics sector. This issue is still a considerable challenge, especially in the cold supply chain for the food and beverage, e-commerce, and pharma last-mile segment. This paper investigates existing research to assess the published literature,...

Sustainability in distribution networks is currently the focus of study at institutional, academic, and commercial levels. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is on all the programmatic agendas, and the goals are clear for years toward carbon neutrality. As one of the main polluting sectors and growing trends with e-commerce, transport must align its...

For years, many shoppers have been enjoying buying very cheap goods online, mainly from Chinese online sellers. The Chinese e-commerce platforms mainly rely on very cheap shipping rates through China Post, which uses the worldwide postal network for delivery to the consumer’s home. This may end soon because of four significant events that will be h...

As already stated in several business and scientific blogs and articles, eCommerce volumes are skyrocketing due to the worldwide lockdowns on the one hand and consumers’ fear of going to a physical store on the other hand. Taking the Belgian case as an example, several parcel and last mile couriers were -and still are- limiting the capacity for eCo...

The last mile in a B2C environment is currently regarded as one of the more expensive, least efficient and most polluting sections of the entire logistics chain. Taking these “last mile problems” into account, the authors developed a last-mile typology and an instrument to simulate the total last-mile costs whereby specific last-mile characteristic...

INTRODUCTION In the past decade, the e-commerce markets for products ranging from high-value durable goods to low-value consumer goods (ex. groceries) have experienced strong growth as well as sweeping change. The expansion of these markets has coincided with an upsurge in direct-to-consumer deliveries. While this type of service is not new, as evi...

Keywords last-mile logistics, urban distribution, innovation, green logistics, characteristics of the supply chain Abstract In the past decade, the e-commerce market for products ranging from high-value durable goods to low-value consumer goods has experienced strong growth as well as sweeping change. The expansion of the market has coincided with...

Poster Session TRB

Keywords Innovation, green logistics, last-mile logistics, E-commerce, night deliveries, Abstract Logistics are undergoing constant and increasingly innovative changes: horizontal as well as vertical integration, traditional trade as well as e-commerce are changing the market structure. Another fact is that “the greening of” or the sustainabili...

Keywords last-mile logistics, urban distribution, innovation, green logistics, characteristics of the supply chain Abstract In the past decade, the e-commerce market for products ranging from high-value durable goods to low-value consumer goods has experienced strong growth as well as sweeping change. The expansion of the market has coincided with...