PMID- 35789231
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220706
LR  - 20220726
IS  - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 7
DP  - 2022
TI  - Micro-hub location selection for sustainable last-mile delivery.
PG  - e0270926
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0270926 [doi]
LID - e0270926
AB  - Sustainable Last-Mile Delivery (LMD) is one of the key phases in city logistics. 
      Micro-hubs in cities are new emerging solutions for an easier and viable 
      last-mile delivery process. The important question in smart and modern cities is 
      the determination of the best micro-hub location for the LMD. This paper solves 
      the micro-hub location selection for sustainable LMD using the multi-criteria 
      decision-making (MCDM) techniques. The main reason for solving the micro-hub 
      location selection is to make the last-mile delivery process in Pardubice as 
      easier and effortless as possible. The Best-Worst Method (BWM), Criteria 
      Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) method, and Weighted 
      Aggregated Sum Product Assessment (WASPAS) method are coupled to solve the 
      micro-hub location selection for sustainable LMD. First, five criteria and 
      alternatives are identified and discussed with the experts. Second, the hybrid 
      criteria importance is determined by combining the BWM and CRITIC methods. Third, 
      the obtained hybrid weights are integrated within the WASPAS method to rank the 
      micro-hub locations. The findings of the Hybrid BWM-CRITIC-WASPAS model show the 
      Alternative 2 ("Hurka") as the best possible location for Pardubice in the 
      context of the LMD. In addition, a comparative analysis with some of the existing 
      MCDM approaches is conducted for the same problem and its results show a high 
      level of matching with the applied hybrid BWM-CRITIC-WASPAS method, which means 
      that Alternative 2 ("Hurka") is strongly recommended as a micro-hub location for 
      sustainable LMD in Pardubice.
FAU - Novotna, Michaela
AU  - Novotna M
AD  - Department of Transport Management, Marketing and Logistics, University of 
      Pardubice-Faculty of Transport Engineering, Pardubice, Czech Republic.
FAU - Svadlenka, Libor
AU  - Svadlenka L
AD  - Department of Transport Management, Marketing and Logistics, University of 
      Pardubice-Faculty of Transport Engineering, Pardubice, Czech Republic.
FAU - Jovcic, Stefan
AU  - Jovcic S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9162-2133
AD  - Department of Transport Management, Marketing and Logistics, University of 
      Pardubice-Faculty of Transport Engineering, Pardubice, Czech Republic.
FAU - Simic, Vladimir
AU  - Simic V
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5709-3744
AD  - Department of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade-Faculty 
      of Transport and Traffic Engineering, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220705
PL  - United States
TA  - PLoS One
JT  - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB  - IM
MH  - Cities
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Weight Gain
PMC - PMC9255753
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2022/07/06 06:00
MHDA- 2022/07/07 06:00
PMCR- 2022/07/05
CRDT- 2022/07/05 19:25
PHST- 2022/01/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/06/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/07/05 19:25 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/07/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/07/07 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/07/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PONE-D-22-01361 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0270926 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLoS One. 2022 Jul 5;17(7):e0270926. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270926. 
      eCollection 2022.