Introducing the Benefits of Autonomous Vehicles to Logistics During the COVID-19 Era

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International Review of Civil Engineering Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI:10.15866/irece.v13i2.21161

T. Campisi, A. Severino, Muhammad Ahmad Al-Rashid

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Abstract

– Recent years have seen an evolution in automation and logistics technologies, especially with the recent growth of the e-commerce industry. The current COVID-19 pandemic and the spread of smart cities have made it necessary to rethink this sector regarding sustainability and resilience. There is a widespread need to redesign some of the steps that lead goods to our homes, encouraging decarbonization policies, reducing contacts between people for possible contagions and at the same time ensuring that products arrive intact and on time. Currently, there is only limited research on the impact of autonomous vehicles on the logistics industry. This paper reviews the literature by analyzing which autonomous systems have been integrated into long, medium, and short-distance logistics. It is clear that the adoption of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) stimulates possible innovation in mobility management and transportation logistics and provides the impetus for many unexplored research opportunities. The research investigates the main theoretical and practical benefits related to the use of autonomous vehicles in logistics, differentiating four areas of action (i.e., indoor and outdoor environments, long-distance and first and last-mile logistics). © 2022 Praise Worthy Prize S.r.l.-All rights reserved.

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在COVID-19时代引入自动驾驶汽车对物流的好处

–近年来，自动化和物流技术不断发展，尤其是随着电子商务行业的发展。当前的新冠肺炎疫情和智能城市的传播，使得有必要重新思考该行业的可持续性和韧性。人们普遍需要重新设计将商品送到家中的一些步骤，鼓励脱碳政策，减少人与人之间可能的传染接触，同时确保产品完好无损、按时到达。目前，关于自动驾驶汽车对物流业的影响的研究有限。本文通过分析哪些自主系统已集成到长距离、中距离和短距离物流中来回顾文献。很明显，自动驾驶汽车的采用刺激了移动管理和运输物流方面可能的创新，并为许多未探索的研究机会提供了动力。该研究调查了在物流中使用自动驾驶汽车的主要理论和实践效益，区分了四个行动领域（即室内和室外环境、长途和第一英里和最后一英里物流）。©2022赞美值得奖S.r.l.-保留所有权利。

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International Review of Civil Engineering Engineering-Architecture

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2.90

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期刊介绍： The International Review of Civil Engineering (IRECE) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original theoretical papers, applied papers, review papers and case studies on all fields of civil engineering. The scope of the Journal encompasses, but is not restricted to the following areas: infrastructure engineering; transportation engineering; structural engineering (buildings innovative structures environmentally responsive structures bridges stadiums commercial and public buildings, transmission towers, television and telecommunication masts, cooling towers, plates and shells, suspension structures, smart structures, nuclear reactors, dams, pressure vessels, pipelines, tunnels and so on); earthquake, hazards, structural dynamics, risks and mitigation engineering; environmental engineering; structure-fluid-soil interaction; wind engineering; fire engineering; multi-scale analysis; constitutive modeling and experimental testing; construction materials; composite materials in engineering structures (use, theoretical analysis and fabrication techniques); novel computational modeling techniques; engineering economics. The Editorial policy is to maintain a reasonable balance between papers regarding different research areas so that the Journal will be useful to all interested scientific groups.