The article’s focus is on the postal services sector. sector plays an important role in a process of delivering packages to customers. Over last few years, there has been significant growth volume shipments transported. aim article demonstrate current development and subsequent prediction two selected indicators that play context e-commerce V4 states. One number shipments; other indicator CO2 e...

Environmental injustice is part and parcel of the fundamentals international domestic environmental law. In South Africa, section 2(4)(c) National Management Act 107 1998 (NEMA) establishes justice (EJ) as management principles to direct decision-making. This particularly relevant because country’s legacy continuing injustices inequalities, especially concerning natural-resource dependent servi...

information and communication technology (ict) has transformed how we live our lives and the way we interact in different contexts. benefits of ict and its upcoming efficiencies (i.e. energy efficiency) are becoming the heart of many public services’ reforms which have influenced the time, distance and space concepts. at present, not only there is a lack of clarity about what high-quality ictba...

This article seeks to show, taking the example of delivery drivers, how inter-firm relations affect worker precarity. It is based on an in-depth field study carried out in Paris region and backed up by statistical analysis national surveys. focuses particular role played firms’ dependence precarity work employment, considering that both should be considered ubiquitous. then measure this highlig...

Tropical wildlands and their biodiversity will survive in perpetuity only through their integration into human society. One protocol for integration is to explicitly recognize conserved tropical wildlands as wildland gardens. A major way to facilitate the generation of goods and services by a wildland garden is to generate a public-domain Yellow Pages for its organisms. Such a Yellow Pages is p...

A courier company approached NICTA to help develop a decision support tool for managing their daily pickup and delivery problem. They take orders from customers throughout the day and have to allocate one of the vehicles of their fleet to best meet the demand. This decision takes into account a number of hard (e.g. a vehicle must have capacity available for a parcel to be transported, a parcel ...

: Aiming at the disadvantage of hard per-parcel classification which can't solve the difficulty of mixed parcel resulting in the low accuracy, a new method of soft per-parcel classification is presented, that is linear mixed parcel unmixing. Based on the linear spectral theory for the parcel unmixing, the predicted fraction value is assigned to a parcel. The RMSE results show that the accuracy ...

Service quality is among the most crucial determinant for customer satisfaction in parcel service industry. It consists of tangibility, reliability, assurance, empathy and responsiveness. However, there lack research knowledge available on with especially higher education level. The purpose to develop a SERVQUAL framework student University’s Parcel Quality institution. Therefore, this paper ca...

New city logistics approaches are needed to ensure efficient urban mobility for both people and goods. Usually, these are handled independently in dedicated networks. This paper considers conceptual and mathematical models in which people and parcels are handled in an integrated way by the same taxi network. From a city perspective, this system has a potential to alleviate urban congestion and ...