Sindi, Safaa and Woodman, Roger (2020) Autonomous goods vehicles for last-mile delivery : evaluation of impact and barriers. In: 23rd Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Virtual Conference, 20-23 Sep 2020. Published in: 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) ISBN 9781728141503. doi:10.1109/ITSC45102.2020.9294558

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Abstract

For transport logistics, often the most inefficient part of the journey is the route between distribution centre and end customer. This route, referred to as last-mile delivery, generally uses smaller goods vehicles, to deliver low-volumes to multiple destinations. To optimise this process, route planning optimisation software is used, to maximise the number of deliveries a driver can complete in a day. To further optimise this process, companies are starting to test autonomous goods vehicles (AGVs). This paper presents an evaluation of the impact and barriers of AGVs for last-mile delivery in the UK, by conducting a study of people in the logistics industry and experts in autonomous technology. Qualitative analysis is used to identify positive and negative impacts of the introduction of driverless AGVs, and barriers, in terms of government policy and technical restrictions, which could slow down wide-scale adoption. From the results, we find logistics companies are being pressured to reduce lead-times and offer more predictable delivery-times. This is increasing pressure on the workforce, which already has high-turnover and difficulties in recruitment. Therefore, AGVs are considered a solution to a present problem, which is preventing logistics companies growing and achieving delivery targets, driven by public demand.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Physical distribution of goods, Transportation -- Planning, Business logistics, Shipment of goods , Automated vehicles, Transportation -- Data processing
Journal or Publication Title:	2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
Publisher:	IEEE
ISBN:	9781728141503
Official Date:	24 December 2020
Dates:	Date Event 24 December 2020 Published 10 May 2020 Accepted
DOI:	10.1109/ITSC45102.2020.9294558
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Publisher Statement:	© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	23rd Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Virtual Conference
Date(s) of Event:	20-23 Sep 2020
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