Characterization of a Covid-fired urban bike delivery system: The Montreal experience

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Research in Transportation Business and Management Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI:10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101187

Suzanne Pirie , Martin Trépanier , Walter Rei

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Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic led to a rapid change in consumers' demand for home deliveries and traditional delivery modes were unable to deliver consumers and shops due to the sudden increase in demand. This study investigates the results of a local cargo bike delivery initiative in Montreal, Canada, during the forced closure of non-essential businesses from March to May 2020. The objective of this study is to identify the variables which interacted with the performance of a cargo bike delivery initiative while considering the specific context of the Covid-19 pandemic. To assess such changing conditions, a multilevel linear regression analysis is carried out. This analysis allows to quantify the number of home deliveries while considering the impact of the number of active Covid-19 cases and sociodemographic predictors on the cargo bike initiative. The dataset covers 6,700 deliveries made by cargo bikes in the city of Montreal over 16 weeks. The results show that the presence of advertising and the characteristics of consumers' households, such as a smaller household size and a younger average age are amongst the strongest factors for the success of such initiative. The specific context of the Covid-19 pandemic allowed a better penetration of cargo bikes within the last-mile ecosystem.

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Covid-19 大流行导致消费者对送货上门的需求急剧变化，传统的送货模式因需求突然增加而无法为消费者和商店送货上门。本研究调查了 2020 年 3 月至 5 月非必要业务被迫关闭期间，加拿大蒙特利尔当地货运自行车送货举措的结果。本研究的目的是在考虑到 "Covid-19 "大流行的特定背景下，确定与货运自行车送货计划的绩效相互作用的变量。为了评估这种不断变化的情况，我们进行了多层次线性回归分析。该分析可以量化送货上门的数量，同时考虑 Covid-19 活动病例数和社会人口预测因素对货运自行车计划的影响。数据集涵盖了货运自行车在蒙特利尔市 16 周内的 6700 次送货。结果表明，广告的存在和消费者家庭的特征（如家庭规模较小和平均年龄较小）是这一举措取得成功的最有力因素。在 "Covid-19 "大流行的特殊背景下，货运自行车在 "最后一英里 "生态系统中的渗透率更高。

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175

期刊介绍： Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM) will publish research on international aspects of transport management such as business strategy, communication, sustainability, finance, human resource management, law, logistics, marketing, franchising, privatisation and commercialisation. Research in Transportation Business & Management welcomes proposals for themed volumes from scholars in management, in relation to all modes of transport. Issues should be cross-disciplinary for one mode or single-disciplinary for all modes. We are keen to receive proposals that combine and integrate theories and concepts that are taken from or can be traced to origins in different disciplines or lessons learned from different modes and approaches to the topic. By facilitating the development of interdisciplinary or intermodal concepts, theories and ideas, and by synthesizing these for the journal''s audience, we seek to contribute to both scholarly advancement of knowledge and the state of managerial practice. Potential volume themes include: -Sustainability and Transportation Management- Transport Management and the Reduction of Transport''s Carbon Footprint- Marketing Transport/Branding Transportation- Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Best Practices in Transport Operations- Franchising, Concessions and Alternate Governance Mechanisms for Transport Organisations- Logistics and the Integration of Transportation into Freight Supply Chains- Risk Management (or Asset Management or Transportation Finance or ...): Lessons from Multiple Modes- Engaging the Stakeholder in Transportation Governance- Reliability in the Freight Sector