With the surge in parcel deliveries especially post COVID, there is a greater need than ever to understand the trade-offs in for different delivery mechanisms. PhD student Hai (Marshall) Yang and former MS student Hector Landes (now at AECOM) developed a large scale residential parcel delivery model for NYC that approximates the vehicle miles traveled, as part of a C2SMART Center project. As NYC DOT tests out microhubs and cargo bikes and considers electric trucks, this might be able to help evaluate different scenarios. The paper was presented at the 12th International Conference on City Logistics at Bordeaux and won the Best Student Paper award. The associated data are publicly available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/7927126.

The paper can be found here: 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2046043023000692