Abstract Barcelona has recently started a new strategy to control and understand Last Mile Delivery, AreaDUM. The strategy is to provide freight delivery vehicle drivers with a mobile app that has to be used every time their vehicle is parked in one of the designated AreaDUM surface parking spaces in the streets of the city. This provides a significant amount of data about the activity of the freight delivery vehicles, their patterns, the occupancy of the spaces, etc. In this paper, we provide a preliminary set of analytics preceded by the procedures employed for the cleansing of the dataset. During the analysis we show that some data blur the results and using a simple strategy to detect when a vehicle parks repeatedly in close-by parking slots, we are able to obtain different, yet more reliable results. In our paper, we show that this behavior is common among users with $$80\%$$ prevalence. We conclude that we need to analyse and understand the user behaviors further with the purpose of providing predictive algorithms to find parking lots and smart routing algorithms to minimize traffic.
Analyzing Last Mile Delivery Operations in Barcelona’s Urban Freight Transport Network
2017-10-27
10 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Urban freight , Clustering , Partitioning Around Medoids , User behavior , Smart City , AreaDUM Computer Science , Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems , Computer Communication Networks , Systems and Data Security , Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing , Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
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