Crowd-shipping in Geneva Exploratory and descriptive study of Crowd-shipping

Abstract

Last decades have shown that urban mobility is becoming an issue in a context of\ngrowing environmental awareness among the general public. The Courier Express\nand Parcel industry represents a significant part of the urban transportation. With the\nemergence of the sharing economy, crowd-shipping is perceived as a promising\nalternative allowing to use the current transport capacity more efficiently.\nThe sharing or collaborative economy has attracted growing attention in the literature\nof the recent years, with only a small proportion discussing crowd-shipping. The\npurpose of this thesis is firstly to study was has been done in the area of crowdshipping,\nunder the framework of an exploratory study. Then, under the framework of\na descriptive study, the authors investigate the concrete situation of Geneva and the\nrelevance of crowd-shipping for the stakeholders of the area.\nThis paper shows the barriers, challenges and benefits linked to the implementation of\ncrowd-shipping. In addition, the authors discuss the most relevant crowd-shipping\nservices for the area of Geneva, with respect to the expectations of different\nstakeholders.