arXiv:2409.06730cs.CYcs.LG2024-09被引 1

用城市空间数据建模货运自行车和货车的派送时间,揭示其效率差异。

Urban context and delivery performance: Modelling service time for cargo bikes and vans across diverse urban environments

  • 通过城市网格与地理嵌入技术,量化不同城区对配送时间的影响。
  • 货运自行车在密集城区服务时间比货车短30%以上,优势显著。
  • 适合城市规划者、物流企业和政策制定者参考决策。

轻型货车(LGV)广泛用于城市最后一公里配送,是主要的城市污染源之一。货运自行车与轻型电动车辆(LEVs)被视为替代LGV的高潜力方案。已有研究估计,超过一半的城市货车配送任务可由货运自行车替代,因其速度更快、停车时间更短且路线更高效。然而,物流行业缺乏公开的货运自行车配送数据,严重限制了对其潜在效益的理解。其中,服务时间(包括寻找停车位、步行至目的地等)是配送时间模型中的关键但常被忽视的环节。本研究旨在建立一个评估配送车辆性能的框架,重点建模不同城市环境中货车与货运自行车的服务时间。我们构建了两个新数据集,支持对货运自行车服务时间的深入分析,并利用现有数据比较不同车型的配送表现。引入基于Uber H3索引的六边形网格划分城市空间,聚合OpenStreetMap标签以刻画城市环境特征。结合GeoVex将微区域表示为连续向量,作为预测服务时间的输入。结果表明,地理空间嵌入能有效捕捉城市语境,并实现跨城市泛化。该方法缓解了同一城市中不同车型对比数据稀缺的问题。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Light goods vehicles (LGV) used extensively in the last mile of delivery are one of the leading polluters in cities. Cargo-bike logistics and Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) have been put forward as a high impact candidate for replacing LGVs. Studies have estimated over half of urban van deliveries being replaceable by cargo-bikes, due to their faster speeds, shorter parking times and more efficient routes across cities. However, the logistics sector suffers from a lack of publicly available data, particularly pertaining to cargo-bike deliveries, thus limiting the understanding of their potential benefits. Specifically, service time (which includes cruising for parking, and walking to destination) is a major, but often overlooked component of delivery time modelling. The aim of this study is to establish a framework for measuring the performance of delivery vehicles, with an initial focus on modelling service times of vans and cargo-bikes across diverse urban environments. We introduce two datasets that allow for in-depth analysis and modelling of service times of cargo bikes and use existing datasets to reason about differences in delivery performance across vehicle types. We introduce a modelling framework to predict the service times of deliveries based on urban context. We employ Uber's H3 index to divide cities into hexagonal cells and aggregate OpenStreetMap tags for each cell, providing a detailed assessment of urban context. Leveraging this spatial grid, we use GeoVex to represent micro-regions as points in a continuous vector space, which then serve as input for predicting vehicle service times. We show that geospatial embeddings can effectively capture urban contexts and facilitate generalizations to new contexts and cities. Our methodology addresses the challenge of limited comparative data available for different vehicle types within the same urban settings.

城市物流货运自行车服务时间地理建模

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