Supply Chain Management in Smart City Manufacturing Clusters: An Alternative Approach to Urban Freight Mobility with Electric Vehicles

The development of green production types such as personalized production and shared manufacturing, which use additive technologies in city multifloor manufacturing clusters (CMFMCs), has led to an increase in last-mile parcel delivery (LMPD) activity. This study investigates the integration of elec...

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Main Authors: Agnieszka Deja, Wojciech Ślączka, Magdalena Kaup, Jacek Szołtysek, Lyudmyla Dzhuguryan, Tygran Dzhuguryan
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description The development of green production types such as personalized production and shared manufacturing, which use additive technologies in city multifloor manufacturing clusters (CMFMCs), has led to an increase in last-mile parcel delivery (LMPD) activity. This study investigates the integration of electric vehicles and crowdshipping systems into smart CMMCs to improve urban logistics operations related to the distribution of products to consumers. The aim of this study is to improve the LMPD performance of these integrated systems and to provide alternative solutions for sustainable city logistics using the potential of crowdshipping and vehicle sharing fleets (VSFs) in the city logistics nodes (CLNs) of CMFMCs. The issues presented by the loading–unloading operations and sustainable crowdshipping scenarios for LMPD in CMFMCs are considered. This paper presents a new performance evaluation model for crowdshipping LMPD in CMFMCs using VSFs. The case study shows that the proposed model enables the analysis of LMPD performance in CMFMCs, taking into account their finite production capacity, and that it facilitates the planning of cargo turnover and the structure of VSFs consisting of e-bicycles, e-cars, and e-light commercial vehicles (e-LCVs). The model is verified based on a case study for sustainable LMPD scenarios using VSFs. The proposed model enables the planning of both short- and long-term logistics operations with the specified performance indicator of VSF usage in CMFMCs. The validity of using the integrated potential of crowdshipping and vehicle sharing services for LMPD under demand uncertainty in CMFMCs is discussed. This study should prove useful for decision-making and planning processes related to LMPD in CMFMCs and large cities.
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spelling doaj-art-9e3548ee08eb48338a30509ee82b32e92025-08-20T02:13:14ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732024-10-011721528410.3390/en17215284Supply Chain Management in Smart City Manufacturing Clusters: An Alternative Approach to Urban Freight Mobility with Electric VehiclesAgnieszka Deja0Wojciech Ślączka1Magdalena Kaup2Jacek Szołtysek3Lyudmyla Dzhuguryan4Tygran Dzhuguryan5Faculty of Economics and Transport Engineering, Maritime University of Szczecin, Wały Chrobrego Street 1-2, 70-507 Szczecin, PolandFaculty of Navigation, Maritime University of Szczecin, Wały Chrobrego Street 1-2, 70-507 Szczecin, PolandFaculty of Navigation, Maritime University of Szczecin, Wały Chrobrego Street 1-2, 70-507 Szczecin, PolandFaculty of Management, University of Economics in Katowice, ul. Bogucicka 3a, 40-226 Katowice, PolandI. J. Paderewski Non-Public Primary School Promyk Szkoła Jak Dom with Bilingual Forms, ul. Starzyńskiego 3-4, 70-506 Szczecin, PolandFaculty of Economics and Transport Engineering, Maritime University of Szczecin, Wały Chrobrego Street 1-2, 70-507 Szczecin, PolandThe development of green production types such as personalized production and shared manufacturing, which use additive technologies in city multifloor manufacturing clusters (CMFMCs), has led to an increase in last-mile parcel delivery (LMPD) activity. This study investigates the integration of electric vehicles and crowdshipping systems into smart CMMCs to improve urban logistics operations related to the distribution of products to consumers. The aim of this study is to improve the LMPD performance of these integrated systems and to provide alternative solutions for sustainable city logistics using the potential of crowdshipping and vehicle sharing fleets (VSFs) in the city logistics nodes (CLNs) of CMFMCs. The issues presented by the loading–unloading operations and sustainable crowdshipping scenarios for LMPD in CMFMCs are considered. This paper presents a new performance evaluation model for crowdshipping LMPD in CMFMCs using VSFs. The case study shows that the proposed model enables the analysis of LMPD performance in CMFMCs, taking into account their finite production capacity, and that it facilitates the planning of cargo turnover and the structure of VSFs consisting of e-bicycles, e-cars, and e-light commercial vehicles (e-LCVs). The model is verified based on a case study for sustainable LMPD scenarios using VSFs. The proposed model enables the planning of both short- and long-term logistics operations with the specified performance indicator of VSF usage in CMFMCs. The validity of using the integrated potential of crowdshipping and vehicle sharing services for LMPD under demand uncertainty in CMFMCs is discussed. This study should prove useful for decision-making and planning processes related to LMPD in CMFMCs and large cities.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/21/5284smart citymanufacturingsustainabilityfreight logisticscrowdshippingelectric vehicles
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Jacek Szołtysek
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Tygran Dzhuguryan
Supply Chain Management in Smart City Manufacturing Clusters: An Alternative Approach to Urban Freight Mobility with Electric Vehicles
Energies
smart city
manufacturing
sustainability
freight logistics
crowdshipping
electric vehicles
title Supply Chain Management in Smart City Manufacturing Clusters: An Alternative Approach to Urban Freight Mobility with Electric Vehicles
title_full Supply Chain Management in Smart City Manufacturing Clusters: An Alternative Approach to Urban Freight Mobility with Electric Vehicles
title_fullStr Supply Chain Management in Smart City Manufacturing Clusters: An Alternative Approach to Urban Freight Mobility with Electric Vehicles
title_full_unstemmed Supply Chain Management in Smart City Manufacturing Clusters: An Alternative Approach to Urban Freight Mobility with Electric Vehicles
title_short Supply Chain Management in Smart City Manufacturing Clusters: An Alternative Approach to Urban Freight Mobility with Electric Vehicles
title_sort supply chain management in smart city manufacturing clusters an alternative approach to urban freight mobility with electric vehicles
topic smart city
manufacturing
sustainability
freight logistics
crowdshipping
electric vehicles
url https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/21/5284
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