Collaborative logistics strategies—both vertical supply-chain coordination and horizontal competitor cooperation—can improve resource utilization, service quality, and supply-chain resilience through cooperation among supply-chain actors....
Collaborative networks in the logistics sector have proven to be a solution that both meets environmental footprint reduction goals and addresses the impact of rising fuel prices on logistics companies, especially for small- and medium-sized enterpri...
Collaborative logistics offers substantial economic, environmental, and operational benefits, yet many collaborations fail to endure. This paper argues that blockchain should be understood not as an efficiency tool but as institutional infrastructure...
Logistics alliance and integrated passenger-freight transit are two widely adopted collaborative logistics modes in rural areas. With the rapid development of agricultural e-commerce, rural “first-mile” logistics has become critical for a...
17 June 2025
The rapid growth of e-commerce and surges in shipment volumes have increased the pressure on transport systems, requiring innovations in collaborative logistics where consumers participate in dual roles as receivers and deliverers. However, existing...
Collaborative information sharing in the maritime logistics supply chain is essential for achieving efficiency, sustainability, and resilience. However, numerous barriers hinder effective information sharing among key stakeholders, including port ope...
The intensity of urban development is presently high, creating a construction boom. The number of transports per project is a major consideration in urban goods transport and emissions from a project. Presently, the stakeholders take part in a &ldquo...
8 August 2022
The development of COVID-19 in China has gradually become normalized; thus, the prevention and control of the pandemic has encountered new problems: the amount of infectious medical waste (IMW) has increased sharply; the location of outbreaks are hig...
In the era of Industry 5.0, human-centric manufacturing necessitates deep integration between workers and intelligent workshop scheduling systems. However, the inherent variability in worker efficiency due to learning and forgetting effects poses cha...
This paper introduces the FreightShare Lab Platform (FSLP) and its embedded business model, aiming to facilitate and encourage horizontal collaboration in freight logistics. The idea of the FSLP is to create collaborating clusters of freight operator...
To address the modeling complexity and multi-objective collaborative optimization challenges in multi-depot and multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery task planning, this paper proposes a bi-layer planning framework, which comprehensively co...
This paper estimates the environmental, social and financial effects of logistics collaboration of the existing logistics companies in Seoul, Korea. The truck routing models for collaborative and non-collaborative deliveries are proposed to estimate...
In recent years, land–air collaborative logistics delivery is a promising distribution method. It combines the flexibility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the high payload capacity of vehicles, expanding the service range of UAVs while...
The prosperity of e-commerce has made more and more businesses willing to enter the e-commerce market, which has also brought a series of strategic collaboration between firms. This study considers game models with and without collaboration between t...
In the context of the digital evolution of the logistics industry, the interconnection of logistics information systems and associated data have become an obstacle of business collaboration among various stakeholders. A critical challenge in this dom...
With the rapid development of a new generation of information technology and data systems, there are more and more modern logistics park projects appearing in China. However, in the process of the construction and operation of a logistics park projec...
Complex and customized manufacturing requires a high level of collaboration between production and logistics in a flexible production system. With the widespread use of Internet of Things technology in manufacturing, a great amount of real-time and m...
The development of E-commerce and digitalization drives the rapid change in logistics management practices and poses challenges to traditional talent training modes in logistics field. Nowadays, companies expect university graduates equipped with mor...
Horizontal logistics collaboration can reduce energy use, yet evaluating coalitions by aggregate savings alone conceals how the savings are attributed to the participating firms. This methodological study uses synthetic data to examine how this attri...
In recent years, there has been an increasing lack of social responsibility, such as low credibility of information disclosure, product quality defects, food safety, and other issues. This has had a certain impact on supply chain performance and has...
This study aims to explore the significance of trust among companies within the supply chain and investigate its effect on collaborative supply chain risk management. In the current uncertain business environment, it is crucial for companies to estab...
In Industry 4.0 compatible workshops, the demand for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) used in indoor logistics systems has increased remarkably. In these indoor logistics systems, it may be necessary to execute multiple transport tasks simultaneously...
HRC is increasingly adopted in industrial and logistics environments, while workforce preparation often remains constrained by instructional approaches that provide limited embodied understanding of safety and ergonomics. This study examines the arch...
Road-based logistics suffer from inefficiencies due to less-than-full load vehicle movements. Consolidating loads through shared-fleet collaborations (also known as freight pooling) can reduce such inefficiencies, and thereby reduce costs, vehicle-ki...
Collaborative designing of service networks using multiple logistics carriers can bring advantages in both economic and environmental terms, and these carriers have symmetry in their service areas. To enable such a collaborative service network and t...
Cities strongly rely on efficient urban logistics to ensure their attractiveness, quality of life, and economic development. In the same time, they strive to ensure livable and safe environments around its road network, where the increased presence o...
This study develops a multi-agent evolutionary game model that incorporates both retailers and heterogeneous logistics providers, extending beyond prior dyadic models that typically isolate either channel choice or logistics competition. By comparing...
To address collaborative decision-making challenges in the pharmaceutical logistics supply chain amid public health emergencies, this study integrates disappointment aversion, delay effects, and pharmaceutical value attenuation, constructing a three-...
This paper addresses the optimization challenges in urban logistics with the aim of enhancing the sustainability of last-mile delivery. By focusing on the collaborative delivery between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UG...
Data, as a key production factor in modern logistics systems, plays a crucial role in enhancing industry efficiency and promoting supply chain coordination. To address challenges in data sharing among logistics enterprises—such as conflicts of...
Traditional ports adopt separate scheduling modes for logistics and multi-energy subsystems without deep bidirectional coupling, which leads to low demand response (DR) participation, severe mismatch between the logistics power demand and multi-energ...
Offshore logistics has a substantial economic impact in the regions where offshore activities are prevalent, and has a huge opportunity to utilize the shared and collaborative logistics approach. The collaborative and shared logistics approach usuall...
Over the past few years, safety and health have become major concerns in the warehouse and logistics sectors. Each year, warehouse fatalities, injuries, and accidents cause unrecoverable losses and huge financial costs. In spite of all the advancemen...
With a renewed global scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform, the digital economy, with data resources as the key element, has rapidly developed. This study proposes a data-driven measurement and evaluation method to promote th...
Food cold chains rely on refrigeration, cold storage, refrigerated transport, packaging and monitoring systems that consume electricity and fuel while preserving food safety, quality and shelf life. Although many studies propose energy-saving technol...
At the background of “Internet + Logistics”, intelligent logistics has high operational efficiency and provides a superior customer experience, meeting the requirements of sustainable development. It also plays a crucial role in promoting...
With the advancement of logistics technology, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) have been widely adopted in manufacturing enterprises due to their high flexibility and stability, particularly in flexible and discrete manufacturing domains such as tire...
Shared-fleet logistics involves collaboration between two or more companies to combine workloads and vehicle capacity to improve vehicle utilisation and transport efficiency and to reduce costs. This study considers the potential environmental and ec...
The increasing variety in last-mile delivery demands requires diverse vehicle-drone collaboration models to meet various scenarios. Meanwhile, growing environmental concerns demand that we optimize not just delivery efficiency but also sustainability...
Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) have brought great convenience to people’s everyday lives. With the emergence of edge computing, IoT devices such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can process data instantly at the poin...
This paper presents effective and efficient solutions for components of urban logistics. The specificity of such logistics and the multiple limitations led to particular solutions. However, they all share one common feature—the flow consolidati...
Digital Shipping Corridors (DSCs) are gaining traction as integrated models for increasing transparency, efficiency, and sustainability in maritime logistics. Yet, the enabling conditions for their effective implementation remain insufficiently explo...
The sustainability and complexity of logistics networks come from the temporally and spatially uneven distributions of freight demand and supply. Operation strategies without considering the sustainability and complexity could dramatically increase t...
Despite the increasing interest toward environmental issues in the freight transport and logistics service sector, a comprehensive and updated assessment of the existing literature is still missing. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting the...
This article proposes a mathematical model for integrating terminal operation strategies with shipment scheduling. We are motivated by findings from the literature on the integrated design of logistic systems. The objective of this research is to eff...
With the rapid development of e-commerce, the logistics industry faces multiple challenges, including high delivery costs, long delivery times, and a shortage of delivery personnel. Truck–drone collaborative delivery combines the high load capa...
This study examines the adoption of real-time visibility (RTV) technologies in the Australian meat cold supply chain, a sector where sustainability challenges such as food spoilage, energy inefficiency, and waste are acute. RTV technologies offer pro...
Collaboration in the freight industry has not been widely adopted mainly due to the perceived barriers in competition resulting in a lack of trust among fleet operators. Collaboration in this sector has significant benefits, including the reduction o...
In order to achieve carbon peak and neutrality goals, many low-carbon operations are implemented in ports. Integrated energy systems that consist of port electricity and cooling loads, wind and PV energy devices, energy storage, and clean fuels are c...
Digital technology, acting as an engine for industrial development, propels the rapid integration of data elements and the swift iteration of digital logistics technology, significantly enhancing logistic resilience. Exploring the impact of digital t...
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