Managing household freight: The impact of online shopping on residential freight trips

Freight transport management and planning traditionally relies on freight models. However, e-commerce has changed the way is transported requires a paradigm shift in such In contrast to conventional purchases physical outlets, there spatial temporal disconnection between purchase reception of goods bought online. While shopper brings home purchases, courier, express parcel (CEP) sector must bridge this leg for online retail channel by delivering household. These new type trips have been ignored literature modeling. Given increasing number urban destined households, omission implies significant errors when demonstrating impacts, identifying potential innovations, or assessing policy initiatives with these Therefore, we develop framework that demonstrates how households' consumption translates into trips. Three key factors seem determine magnitude traffic originated household's shopping: (i) consumer shopping behavior, (ii) supplier network distribution system designed store, (iii) fragmentation CEP market density delivery network. The identification three provides action mitigate impact household freight.