"The emerging technologies of Information and Communication Technologies, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and robots and drones, plus collaboration among stakeholders, can be used with data to model, plan and evaluate an efficient and sustainable urban freight...

Background: The global logistics industry is facing looming challenges related to labor shortages and low-efficiency problems due to the lack of logistics facilities and resources, resulting in increased logistics delays. The Physical Internet is seen as a way to take logistics into the next...