RT Journal Article
T1 Reusing Newspaper Kiosks for Last-Mile Delivery in Urban Areas.
A1 González-Varona, José Manuel
A1 Villafáñez Cardeñoso, Félix Antonio
A1 Acebes Senovilla, Fernando
A1 Redondo, Alfonso
A1 Poza García, David
K1 Logística
K1 Economía circular
AB The current increase in e-commerce is generating growing problems in urban areas in terms of both traffic flow (increasing traffic, no parking spaces) and environmental issues (noise, atmospheric pollution, etc.). In parallel, an iconic element of historic districts is disappearing: more and more newspaper kiosks are closing their business as their work dwindles. In this scenario, the objective of this paper is to propose a model for last-mile parcel delivery that exploits the current available newspaper kiosk network by using them as parcel lockers. To demonstrate the benefits of this proposal, we map the kiosk network of the city of Valladolid (Spain), and compare the environmental impact of a traditional (door-to-door) delivery and the proposed model which reuses old kiosks as parcel lockers. The necessary steps to carry out simulations are described in detail so that experiments can be replicated in other cities that face the same issues.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2020
FD 2020-11-23
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34814
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34814
LA eng
NO González-Varona, J. M., Villafáñez, F., Acebes, F., Redondo, A., & Poza, D. (2020). Reusing newspaper kiosks for last-mile delivery in urban areas. Sustainability, 12(22), 9770.
NO Funding: This research was funded by Project “ABARNET”, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness with grant number DPI2016-78902-P and by Project “Transformación Digital y Circular de los Kioscos” financed by the Valladolid City Council with grant number AI-19/2018.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026