Business to consumer e-commerce (B2C) has increased sharply in recent years driven by a growing online population and changes behavior. In metropolitan areas, the “Amazon effect” (online retailers’ vast selection, fast shipping, free returns, low prices) led an use of light goods vehicles. This is affecting rational functioning transport system, including high degree fragmentation, load optimiz...

UAS-based commercial services such as urban parcel delivery are expected to grow in the upcoming years and may lead a large volume of UAS operations areas. These flights pose safety risks persons property on ground, which referred third-party risks. Path-planning methods have been developed generate nominal flight path for each that poses relative low by passing over less risky areas, e.g., are...

The shared autonomous vehicle (SAV) is a new concept that meets the upcoming trends of driving and changing demands in urban transportation. SAVs can carry passengers parcels simultaneously, making use dedicated passenger parcel modules on board. A fleet could partly take over private transport, taxi, last-mile delivery services. reduced size compared to conventional transportation modes would ...