Measuring E-Commerce User Experience in the Last-Mile Delivery

The Future of Last - Mile Delivery

Stereoscopic 3D to Enhance User Experience in E-commerce

The context for this study is stereoscopic 3D (S3D) images as a design element in an ecommerce setting with the purpose of enhancing the user experience (UX). Findings from the usability testing, i.e. evaluation by the think aloud method, confirm previously conducted studies of S3D and UX. This study shows that users are affected by the S3D representation of a product, affecting beliefs and fee...

Transshipment Networks for Last-Mile Delivery in Congested Urban Areas1

This paper introduces the concept of transshipment networks, a collection of strategically located transshipment platforms, for efficient and flexible last-mile delivery in congested urban areas. By implementing transshipment platforms, logistics operators can select the locations, light-freight vehicle types and operating schedules that best fit specific distribution strategies, and, simultane...

Minimizing waiting time in last mile delivery for smart city

Customers consider a reliable and on-time last mile delivery in Omni-channel business as important as price and good’s quality. We focus on minimizing the waiting time for customers and carriers in last mile delivery. We model the problem as an optimization problem and develop Genetic Algorithm to solve it.

Illuminating the Last Mile?

The next leap in the communications market may be the extension of optical technology to access networks. Advanced fibre optical access equipment has been developed in the last decade and today trial tests are on the way and insular deployment has begun. The access network, the last mile, has not encountered any major changes of technology for a century. However, current advancements in technol...