Traditional Transportation and DHL Courier Tracking

The incorrect integration of traditional transportation modes with low-emission cars might lead to a pricing war, lowering service quality and jeopardizing package delivery companies' efficiency and profitability. This article seeks to give managerial insights on how to build a win-win strategy for traditional and green company models coexisting. In order to accomplish so, we use a multidisciplinary strategy that combines a qualitative study using the GUEST Lean Business methodology with a quantitative analysis using simulation optimization tools.

In the literature, this type of comprehensive perspective has gotten little attention. The first investigation looks at the package delivery sector, focusing on the key business models, their costs, and revenue structures, while the quantitative section seeks to simulate the system and extract sustainable policies. The findings show that when implementing mixed-fleet policies, decision-makers must consider both the environmental benefits of adopting low-emission cars as well as the operational viability and economic sustainability of the two services.

The urbanisation and growth of megacities have produced substantial paradigm shifts in urban freight transportation and parcel delivery in recent decades. First, economic growth in the 1990s resulted in the emergence of faster-growing medium-large-sized businesses that specialized in the transportation of tiny parcels, resulting in the formation of the Parcel market. Since the early 2000s, the advent of e-commerce and technology has dramatically altered logistics and freight transportation, with an increase in deliveries to B2C segments in urban areas and increased competition among e-commerce giant platforms to meet the growing demand for fast and low-cost deliveries.

Furthermore, increased awareness of transportation's environmental impact, as well as significant congestion and environmental nuisances, encourages the use of non-motorized transportation (e.g., bikes and cargo bikes), self-service kiosks (i.e., lockers), and collaborative business models to move people and goods. As previously stated, due to the connections and disagreements among players, their business models, and the technology themselves, integrating many delivery options is regrettably not straightforward.

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City Logistics and new domains, such as the Physical Internet, provide initiatives to optimize traffic flow and jointly address the economic, operational, social, and environmental sustainability of transportation and logistics, mitigating the inefficiencies and externalities that characterize the last-mile segment of the supply chain. Despite the extensive literature and current state-of-the-art in the field of city logistics, not all ideas and suggestions are implemented successfully. DHL Courier Tracking can be used for tracking your package via our online form.

Indeed, as some City Logistics projects have failed owing to a lack of support and commitment from various players (with varying levels of competence) in urban areas, some City Logistics initiatives have failed. This chasm arises from the lack of a management perspective in the implementation of policies for long-term freight transportation and logistics. Indeed, most implementation and proposal efforts are overly focused on technology factors such as platforms or optimization tools, obviating the need for a broader perspective and a gap between business and operational models. To our knowledge, a holistic view of such a complex and hyper-connected system that incorporates an actors' behavior analysis, economic, and managerial concerns into simulation and optimization tools has received little attention in the literature.