Spatial Heterogeneity of Intra-Urban E-Commerce Demand and Its Retail-Delivery Interactions: Evidence from Waybill Big Data
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Study Area
3.2. Data Resources
3.2.1. Data Sources for E-Commerce Demand
3.2.2. Multi-Source Data Integration
3.3. Methodology
3.3.1. Kernel Density Estimation
3.3.2. Global Regression Modeling
3.3.3. Local Regression Modeling
4. Results
4.1. Kernel Density Estimation
4.2. Global Regression
4.3. Local Regression
5. Conclusions and Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Research Perspective | Data Source | Driving Factors | Analytical Methods | Reference |
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Online shopping behavior | 2014 Online Shopping Index (OSI) by Alibaba Group | Socioeconomic: urban administrative level, Internet penetration level, age, educational level, income level | General Spatial Model (SAC) includes both the spatial lag term and the spatial error term | [19] |
Built environment: number of shopping centers, number of buses, number of express delivery points | ||||
Online shopping behavior | Dutch e-commerce survey (1996–2001) | Socioeconomic: gender, age, educational level, Internet penetration level, credit card popularity level, family shopping experience | Ordinary Least Squares | [20] |
Built environment: urbanization level, accessibility of physical stores | ||||
Online shopping behavior | Face-to-face survey in Tel Aviv metropolitan area | Socioeconomic: gender, age, educational level, member of family, income level, the number of cars owned by the family, reasons for Internet shopping, Internet penetration level, enjoy shopping | Ordinal Logit Model | [21] |
Online shopping behavior | Survey Monkey’s online shopper panel | Socioeconomic: age, educational level, income, number and frequency of mobile purchases, annual mobile purchase expenditure amount | Linear Regression Model | [14] |
Online shopping behavior | E-commerce in Belgium 2016 questionnaire by Comeos | Socioeconomic: age, educational level, income | Logistic Regression Model | [22] |
Built environment: urbanization level | ||||
Online shopping behavior | Questionnaires from 384 online shopping platform users | Behavioral: online purchasing habits, loss avoidance, transition costs, uncertainty cost, sunk cost, social norms, information search, evaluation of alternative solutions, negative intent recognition, uncertain purchasing behavior, negative purchasing behavior, negative recommendations | Structural Equation Model | [23] |
Online shopping behavior | Online self-administered survey by Oualtrics | Behavioral: product portfolio, product quality, price transparency, website convenience, service quality, security issues, online retail discounts | Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling | [24] |
Online shopping behavior | Shopping survey (December 2008–January 2009) | Socioeconomic: age, income, family vehicle ownership status, number of household employees, shopping behavior, Internet experience, shopping attitude | Structural Equation Model | [25] |
Built environment: offline shopping accessibility | ||||
Online shopping behavior | Acxiom’s Research Opinion Poll | Socioeconomic: age, income, family vehicle ownership status, family size, Internet access | Binary Logistic Regression Model | [26] |
Built environment: urbanization level, offline shopping accessibility | ||||
Online shopping behavior | Internet diary survey (April 2003) | Socioeconomic: age, gender, income; educational level, weekly working hours, Internet use level, population density, proportion of white race | Logistic Regression Model | [27] |
Built environment: the number of shopping opportunities during travel time, shopping opportunity area during travel time | ||||
Online shopping behavior | Household survey in Nanjing (July–August 2015) | Socioeconomic: age; income, educational level, usage of smartphones, daily Internet usage time | Joint Binary Logit Regression | [28] |
Built environment: distance to the workplace, distance to the nearest subway station, distance to the nearest shopping center | ||||
Online shopping behavior | Household survey in Shiraz, Iran | Socioeconomic: income, educational level, work situation, driver’s license status, offline shopping frequency, online shopping frequency, Internet use experience | Structural Equation Model | [29] |
Built environment: land use diversity, offline shopping and transportation methods, offline shopping locations, proportion of connection nodes, intersection density, employment density, residential density, the distance from home to the nearest store, the distance from home to the nearest bus stop, residential location | ||||
Parcel delivery | Logistics company waybill data (2019–2022) | Socioeconomic: socioeconomic income, nonresident real estate transactions | Moran’s I and bivariate Moran’s I | [17] |
Built environment: density of commercial facilities, diversity of commercial facilities, per capita parcel delivery and opportunities achievable within 15 min under walking distance and socioeconomic conditions, per capita package delivery and opportunities achievable within 30 min under public transportation distance and socioeconomic conditions | ||||
Parcel delivery | Logistics company waybill data (2019–2021) | Socioeconomic: income, family size | Negative Binomial Regression Model | [16] |
Built environment: number of offline retail stores, community area | ||||
Parcel delivery | Logistics company waybill data (February–April 2019) | Socioeconomic: population density, average family size, average household income, average age of household heads, average vehicle ownership rate | Linear Regression Model | [15] |
Built environment: average age of residential buildings, accessibility of commercial complexes, accessibility of public transportation | ||||
Parcel delivery | CJ Logistics parcel delivery OD data (June 2014) | Socioeconomic: single occupancy rate, gender, age, daytime population size, GDP | Spatial Durbin Error Model | [18] |
Built environment: proportion of residential areas, proportion of commercial areas, apartment ratio, retail area ratio |
Waybill Number | Date | Time | Progress |
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78XXXXXXXXXX28 | 11 November 2023 | 12:02:30 | [Guangzhou Wanjia, Guangdong Province][Guangzhou] Guangzhou Wanjia has been collected |
11 November 2023 | 20:23:48 | [Guangzhou Transfer Center, Guangdong Province][Guangzhou] The Guangzhou Express has arrived at the Guangzhou Transfer Center | |
11 November 2023 | 20:29:38 | [Guangzhou Transfer Center, Guangdong Province][Guangzhou] The package has been sent to Guangzhou Tonghe | |
12 November 2023 | 1:04:23 | [Guangzhou Tonghe, Guangdong Province][Guangzhou] The package has arrived at Tonghe, Guangzhou | |
12 November 2023 | 10:12:25 | [Guangzhou Tonghe, Guangdong Province][Guangzhou] The salesperson from Guangzhou Tonghe is currently delivering for the second time | |
12 November 2023 | 15:37:04 | [Guangzhou Baiyun Dabi West Road Branch of Express Supermarket, Guangdong Province] The package has been temporarily placed at the Guangzhou Baiyun Dabi West Road branch of the express supermarket, please pick up the package promptly. | |
13 November 2023 | 14:11:58 | [Guangzhou Baiyun Dabi West Road Branch of Express Supermarket, Guangdong Province][Guangzhou] Your package has been signed for |
Variable | Mean | Std. Dev. | Min | Max |
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Density of e-commerce demand (parcels/m2) | 0.415 | 0.455 | 0.0001 | 2.337 |
Density of population (persons/m2) | 174.062 | 191.065 | 0.614 | 975.420 |
Quantity of population with higher education (persons) | 28,945.835 | 22,079.463 | 1034 | 119,755 |
Density of Taobao villages (villages/m2) | 0.0003 | 0.001 | 0 | 0.007 |
Density of wholesale businesses (points/m2) | 5.613 | 8.779 | 0.001 | 44.855 |
Density of bus stops (stops/m2) | 0.045 | 0.041 | 0 | 0.195 |
Density of subway stations (stations/m2) | 0.009 | 0.013 | 0 | 0.062 |
Density of express service points (points/m2) | 0.073 | 0.073 | 0.00004 | 0.458 |
Density of convenience stores (stores/m2) | 0.165 | 0.145 | 0 | 0.774 |
Density of supermarkets (stores/m2) | 0.030 | 0.031 | 0 | 0.221 |
Density of shopping malls (malls/m2) | 0.004 | 0.010 | 0 | 0.098 |
Dimension | Variable | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | Model 5 | VIF |
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Intercept | 0.169 * | 0.651 | 0.174 | 0.036 | 0.463 | ||
Population attributes | Density of population | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 3.313 |
Quantity of population with higher education | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 1.108 | |
Industrial development | Density of Taobao villages | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 0.000 *** | 1.141 | |
Density of wholesale businesses | 0.114 | 0.018 ** | 0.015 ** | 0.080 ** | 2.102 | ||
Transportation accessibility | Density of bus stops | 0.622 | 0.888 | 0.336 | 5.052 | ||
Density of subway stations | 0.128 | 0.113 | 0.113 | 1.878 | |||
Density of logistics facilities | Density of express service points | 0.073 * | 0.002 *** | 1.889 | |||
Density of commercial facilities | Density of convenience stores | 0.285 | 5.115 | ||||
Density of supermarkets | 0.031 ** | 5.560 | |||||
Density of shopping malls | 0.000 *** | 2.423 | |||||
No. of Obs. | 176 | 176 | 176 | 176 | 176 | ||
Adjusted R2 | 0.854 | 0.862 | 0.867 | 0.869 | 0.889 |
Criterion | OLS | GWR | MGWR |
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Adjusted R2 | 0.889 | 0.889 | 0.896 |
AICc | −148.900 | 128.493 | 126.923 |
Criterion | Variable | GWR | MGWR |
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Intercept | 138 | 175 | |
Population attributes | Population density | 138 | 175 |
Quantity of population with higher education | 138 | 93 | |
Quantity of population without higher education | 138 | 175 | |
Industrial development | Density of Taobao villages | 138 | 175 |
Density of wholesale businesses | 138 | 175 | |
Transportation accessibility | Density of bus stops | 138 | 175 |
Density of subway stations | 138 | 175 | |
Density of logistics facilities | Density of express service points | 138 | 175 |
Density of commercial facilities | Density of convenience stores | 138 | 175 |
Density of supermarkets | 138 | 112 | |
Density of shopping malls | 138 | 175 |
Dimension | Variable | OLS | Mean | STD | Min | Median | Max |
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Intercept | 0.463 | 0.058 | 0.002 | 0.052 | 0.059 | 0.062 | |
Population attributes | Population density | 0.000 *** | 0.953 | 0.002 | 0.952 | 0.952 | 0.960 |
Quantity of population with higher education | 0.000 *** | 0.136 | 0.073 | 0.014 | 0.141 | 0.265 | |
Industrial development | Density of Taobao villages | 0.000 *** | −0.067 | 0.001 | −0.071 | −0.067 | −0.067 |
Density of wholesale businesses | 0.080 * | −0.092 | 0.002 | −0.093 | −0.093 | −0.085 | |
Transportation accessibility | Density of bus stops | 0.366 | −0.067 | 0.002 | −0.069 | −0.068 | −0.061 |
Density of subway stations | 0.113 | 0.054 | 0.002 | 0.052 | 0.053 | 0.062 | |
Density of logistics facilities | Density of express service points | 0.002 *** | 0.089 | 0.001 | 0.087 | 0.089 | 0.093 |
Density of commercial facilities | Density of convenience stores | 0.285 | 0.120 | 0.004 | 0.116 | 0.119 | 0.137 |
Density of supermarkets | 0.031 ** | −0.261 | 0.076 | −0.341 | −0.298 | −0.128 | |
Density of shopping malls | 0.000 *** | 0.240 | 0.002 | 0.237 | 0.239 | 0.249 | |
OLS | Mean | STD | Min | Median | Max |
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Cai, Y.; Chen, J.; Li, S. Spatial Heterogeneity of Intra-Urban E-Commerce Demand and Its Retail-Delivery Interactions: Evidence from Waybill Big Data. J. Theor. Appl. Electron. Commer. Res. 2025, 20, 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer20030190
Cai Y, Chen J, Li S. Spatial Heterogeneity of Intra-Urban E-Commerce Demand and Its Retail-Delivery Interactions: Evidence from Waybill Big Data. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research. 2025; 20(3):190. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer20030190
Chicago/Turabian StyleCai, Yunnan, Jiangmin Chen, and Shijie Li. 2025. "Spatial Heterogeneity of Intra-Urban E-Commerce Demand and Its Retail-Delivery Interactions: Evidence from Waybill Big Data" Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 20, no. 3: 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer20030190
APA StyleCai, Y., Chen, J., & Li, S. (2025). Spatial Heterogeneity of Intra-Urban E-Commerce Demand and Its Retail-Delivery Interactions: Evidence from Waybill Big Data. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 20(3), 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer20030190