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Carbon dioxide benefits of using collection-delivery points for failed home deliveries

Carbon dioxide benefits of using collection-delivery points for failed home deliveries
Carbon dioxide benefits of using collection-delivery points for failed home deliveries
Unlike much of the previous research on this topic, which assesses the economic consequences of failed deliveries to the home, this study examines the issue of failed delivery from a carbon-auditing perspective. It considers the potential environmental savings from the use of alternative forms of collection and delivery over traditional delivery methods for failed home deliveries. With a spreadsheet carbon audit model, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for a failed delivery are calculated on the basis of a typical van home delivery round of 120 drops and 50-mi (80-km) distance. Three first-time delivery failure rates (10%, 30%, and 50%) are assessed. The additional CO2 from a second delivery attempt increases the emissions per drop by 9% to 75% (depending on the delivery failure rate). The vast majority (85% to 95%) of emissions emanating from a traditional failed delivery arise not from the repeat van delivery but from the personal travel associated with the customer’s collecting a missed redelivery from the carrier’s local depot. A range of collection–delivery points (CDPs) (supermarkets, post offices, railway stations) were all found to reduce the environmental impact of this personal travel. Post offices (currently operating a CDP system through the U.K. Royal Mail’s Local Collect service) yielded the greatest savings, creating just 13% of the CO2 produced by a traditional collection by car from a local depot. Overall, the research suggests that the use of CDPs offers a convenient and more environmentally friendly alternative to redelivery and customer collection from a local parcel depot
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Edwards, Julia, McKinnon, Alan, Cherrett, Tom, McLeod, Fraser and Song, Liying (2010) Carbon dioxide benefits of using collection-delivery points for failed home deliveries. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2191. (doi:10.3141/2191-17).

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Unlike much of the previous research on this topic, which assesses the economic consequences of failed deliveries to the home, this study examines the issue of failed delivery from a carbon-auditing perspective. It considers the potential environmental savings from the use of alternative forms of collection and delivery over traditional delivery methods for failed home deliveries. With a spreadsheet carbon audit model, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for a failed delivery are calculated on the basis of a typical van home delivery round of 120 drops and 50-mi (80-km) distance. Three first-time delivery failure rates (10%, 30%, and 50%) are assessed. The additional CO2 from a second delivery attempt increases the emissions per drop by 9% to 75% (depending on the delivery failure rate). The vast majority (85% to 95%) of emissions emanating from a traditional failed delivery arise not from the repeat van delivery but from the personal travel associated with the customer’s collecting a missed redelivery from the carrier’s local depot. A range of collection–delivery points (CDPs) (supermarkets, post offices, railway stations) were all found to reduce the environmental impact of this personal travel. Post offices (currently operating a CDP system through the U.K. Royal Mail’s Local Collect service) yielded the greatest savings, creating just 13% of the CO2 produced by a traditional collection by car from a local depot. Overall, the research suggests that the use of CDPs offers a convenient and more environmentally friendly alternative to redelivery and customer collection from a local parcel depot

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Published date: 2010
Organisations: Transportation Group

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Local EPrints ID: 348551
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/348551
ISSN: 0361-1981
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ORCID for Tom Cherrett: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0394-5459
ORCID for Fraser McLeod: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5784-9342

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Author: Julia Edwards
Author: Alan McKinnon
Author: Tom Cherrett ORCID iD
Author: Fraser McLeod ORCID iD
Author: Liying Song

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