Papers by Alexandra Lagorio
Computers & Industrial Engineering
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This paper, by means of 8 case studies, discusses the implication of Industry 4.0 investments joi... more This paper, by means of 8 case studies, discusses the implication of Industry 4.0 investments jointly on competences and organization, focusing on SMEs. The work adopts a socio-technical perspective to analyze the decision of organizational and technological investment of manufacturing firms. Results highlight the emergence of new manufacturing paradigms.
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The offer of logistic services (e.g. transport, inventory management, customs brokerage, IT solut... more The offer of logistic services (e.g. transport, inventory management, customs brokerage, IT solutions and so forth) targeted and personalised to the different customers’ needs is expanding thanks to the benefits foreseen from the implementation and exploitation of the Industry 4.0 technologies. However, this expansion comes at the cost of the increased complexity of the services offered, requiring the identification of the correct infrastructure supporting their provision, and identifying the necessary skills to make them available in the best possible way. Therefore, to avoid situations in which logistics service provision becomes inconvenient, it is necessary to study in depth the characteristics and requirements of each service before offering it to the customers. This paper, adopting the service provider perspective, aims to identify the macro-categories of requirements to provide different logistic services. Starting from a discussion on the differences between different kinds ...
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With the spread of e-commerce, there has been an upsurge in the number of B2C deliveries. The lim... more With the spread of e-commerce, there has been an upsurge in the number of B2C deliveries. The limits of home delivery such as the difficulty in finding the exact addresses and the missing deliveries, exhacerbate the negative impacts of last mile logistics (i.e., congestion and pollution) To overcome these problems, solutions such as delivery to supervised or automated points have become more and more widespread. For this reason, there are several case studies aimed at understanding which are the best locations for these type of solutions. The objective of this paper is to identify the main factors affecting parcel lockers.
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NECTAR Cluster 2: Policy and Environment Conference. E-groceries, digitalization and sustainability: Which governance, planning and regulation mix do our cities need?, Oct 1, 2018
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Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2022
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Extended abstract Objectives and motivation Urban population is steadily growing, bringing along ... more Extended abstract Objectives and motivation Urban population is steadily growing, bringing along a manifold increment of demand for goods and services, mainly concentrated in relatively limited or overly constrained areas. This is inevitably leading cities around the world to face increasing challenges in terms of efficient transportation of goods, while controlling – and ideally reducing – its negative impacts (i.e. congestion, pollution, noises, accidents...) on the quality of life of their citizens, without penalizing the city’s many economic, social, administrative, cultural, touristic, and other activities (Benjelloun et al., 2010). In this respect, many cities around the world are undertaking city logistics projects (CLP) to address the above mentioned context, with the aim at optimizing the logistics and transport activities by public and private actors in urban areas while considering the traffic environment, the traffic congestion, and energy consumption within the framewor...
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The development of technology, coupled with the economic and the environmental changes, fostered ... more The development of technology, coupled with the economic and the environmental changes, fostered interest in "smart cities" concept, that is cities where "investments in human and social capital linked with traditional and modern communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic growth and a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory governance". In this direction, the city of Bergamo is approaching the smart city paradigm proposing new services and innovative solutions aiming at reducing costs and resource consumption, and at shortening the distance between citizens and city government. During a project with the University of Bergamo, many possible solutions to comply with this paradigm were highlighted. Budget constraints spurred to compare the ideas, and to select the most valuable to be implemented first. In order to facilitate the ranking and the prioritization of the ideas, a two-step assessment method base...
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The remarkable developments in e-commerce offer more flexibility and alternative shopping experie... more The remarkable developments in e-commerce offer more flexibility and alternative shopping experience to busy people, to such an extent that the best choice in the future for having a meal may be to have it delivered at home. Food ordering and delivery is not a recent business, but it scaled up in the last few years, thank to several successful "logistics apps" and online platforms that enabled online meal purchasing from a wide range of restaurants, promising fast and reliable deliveries of food within city limits. Those revolutionary, original and efficient takeaway services, such as Just-eat, Deliveroo, Deliver Hero and others, gained popularity both for their business success and for class actions related to the employment conditions. In this paper, we first analyse how do these emerging companies work, providing a special focus on the logistics aspects. In particular, we analyse the operations related to the order pick-up and delivery process, performed relying on larg...
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The latest economic and environmental changes together with the increase of urban population is c... more The latest economic and environmental changes together with the increase of urban population is changing the traditional concept of city promoting the so called "smart city". This new concept promotes sustainable economic growth and a wise management of resources in order to create a better place where people can live and interact. This work discusses an engineering approach to be followed during the identification and the development of new solutions inside the smart city context. Some methods for the structured design of solutions are discussed with a specific focus on methods for the collection of citizens needs and the ideation of new smart city solutions. An exemplification of the proposed methods is described in relation to the city of Bergamo.
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The lack of data is one of the most common problems when dealing with the design of solutions tha... more The lack of data is one of the most common problems when dealing with the design of solutions that optimize urban freight transport (City Logistics Projects). In fact, to be able to process an effective City Logistics Projects for a certain area of the city, it is necessary to have the data concerning the number of daily deliveries that each commercial activity receives in this area, with detailed information regarding the time of delivery, the type of used vehicle and the amount of delivery. Only in this way is it possible to have a correct and realistic dimensioning of the freight demand. In the reality, it is not always possible to have this data for an adequate period of time. This paper, starting from the existing literature on demand forecasting and from an analysis of real data, provides the proposal of an alternative method of forecasting the demand for goods for a given area in the city when only the typology of commercial activities and a small amount of data are known.
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In this paper, we propose a framework aiming to provide a preliminary assessment and comparison o... more In this paper, we propose a framework aiming to provide a preliminary assessment and comparison of cities on the most important dimensions related to city logistics, thus preparing the ground for stakeholder engagement and solution design. The framework is also designed to overcome some of most relevant issues in city logistics research, such as lack of data and stakeholder engagement. First of all, the framework takes into account the different characteristics of a city: physical, infrastructural, social and economical features. Next, the framework analyses thestate of city logistic features, such as: access conditions, parcel solutions, low impact vehicles adoption, land use,and infrastructures. The dimensions considered in the framework are drawn from the literature. The framework has been tested on two European cities representatives of mid-sized towns that have initiated to redesign their urban logistics systems: Bergamo (north of Italy) and the city of Luxembourg. Despite of t...
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The Urban Distribution (or Consolidation) Centers (CDU) are one of the available solutions for th... more The Urban Distribution (or Consolidation) Centers (CDU) are one of the available solutions for the last mile logistics that have gained greater interest in both academic and transportation corporate fields. Despite the widespread of the projects involving CDUs, only few of them are recognized as effective over the years. In this paper, through a case survey methodology, we identified the common elements of successful projects and aspects that have instead caused their failure; the final aim is to identify best practices and common mistakes in developing a new urban distribution center project.
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