CEPOLINA E. M.

The textile-garment industry needs great production flexibility to adapt, in terms of sustainability, to the fickle fashion market. This study proposes a new simulation model of manufacturing and production processes, which can be used as design support, performance evaluation and plant management of highly flexible production systems such as...

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The paper refers to an innovative urban freight distribution scheme. Packages are firstly delivered to urban distribution centers (UDCs) on the border of urban areas. Packages should therefore be delivered from the UDC to receivers within the urban area. Each package is characterized by an address and dimensions. FURBOT boxes are consolidated...

The paper refers to an innovative urban freight distribution scheme, aimed at reducing the externalities connected with the freight delivery process. Both packages destined to commercial activities and to private consumers (e-commerce) are taken into account. Packages are firstly delivered to urban distribution centers (UDCs) on the border of...

Online shopping has seen booms of orders in recent years. In online shopping, the orders are characterized by tight order-to-delivery lead times and the frequent and discrete arrival of orders. Online shopping has recently expanded into new sectors. Due to the pandemic, online grocery shopping showed a boom and the shift from physical grocery...

Traditional car sharing systems are round-trip and require advance reservations. The advances of ICT and vehicle automation allow to improve car sharing sys-tems and to provide users with greater flexibility. As it concerns reservation, new car sharing systems offer users open-ended reservation and/or instant access. As it concerns the trip...

Purpose: The paper concerns a transport system for pedestrian areas, based on a fleet of fully-automated Personal Intelligent Accessible Vehicles. The following services are provided: instant access, open ended reservation and one way trips. All these features provide users with high flexibility, but create a problem of uneven distribution of...

Last-mile distribution causes more obstacles in urban areas all over the world. Increased volumes of packages to be delivered for customer homes is directly increasing the number of delivery vans movement inside the urban areas and thus add to congestion and negative health impact. Therefore, it is anything but surprising that in recent years...