Project number: MF-5.3c

Funding source: Volvo Research and Educational Foundations

Performance period: 1/1/2018 - 12/31/2018

Project description

This proposed research contributes to a new body of research that investigates the potential of digital market places to disrupt city logistics. Instant delivery services provide deliveries within one or two hours after order, operated by self-contracted couriers on bicycles connected to freight demand via smartphone apps. Large companies (Amazon Prime Now) are involved together with start-ups, some of which grew into medium size companies (Deliveroo, Delivery Hero, GrubHub). These services disrupt the urban freight routine in many ways (business models, labour conditions, environmental performance, vehicle choice, delivery routes) (Dablanc et al., 2017).