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The International Transport Forum (ITF) has examined the impact that new last-metre delivery services like drones have on the efficiency of urban logistics.
In its study titled ‘The Final Frontier of Urban Logistics: Tackling the Last Metres’, the ITF suggests that a lot of time on parcel delivery is spent during the last metres of the delivery, such as going to the customer’s door, re-delivering missed deliveries, and waiting for customers to collect their parcels.
As the rise of e-commerce has increased, proposed solutions for sustainably accommodating the growing demand of parcels include porters, bicycle deliveries, and automated delivery pods like drones and robots.
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