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Transport Effectiveness of Grocery Shops Deliveries

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  • Lorencowicz, Edmund
  • Uziak, Jacek

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The paper presents the analysis of groupage transport supplying meat and meat products from wholesalers to grocery shops. The analysis uses transport efficiency indicators related to time management and is based on data collected for two cases, in two periods of 20 working days each. Based on the data collected by self-registration, loading lists, driver’s records in a self-prepared schedule and supplementary interviews with the driver, the following indicators were calculated and discussed: daily load, daily distance, time of transport processes, technical and operational speeds, transport work, vehicle and time efficiencies, and vehicle performance. The most important factors affecting the efficiency were determined. It was found that the daily load varies and depends, not only on the route and the number of pick-up points, but also on the days of the week. It was revealed that in the working time structure, the time of driving with a load was on average from 31% to 44% of the overall time. Transport work varied, depending on the route, from 12.1 to 119.0 tkm, and vehicle performance, from 2.05 to 19.11 tkm/h. The time efficiency ratio ranged from 0.38 to 0.45, and the transport efficiency from 0.82 to 0.86. The possibility of optimizing the routes and improving the indicators are related to, among others, vehicles’ technical accessories and warehouses equipment facilitating faster unloading and loading, as well as digitization of ordering and delivery settling processes.

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  • Lorencowicz, Edmund & Uziak, Jacek, 2023. "Transport Effectiveness of Grocery Shops Deliveries," Roczniki (Annals), Polish Association of Agricultural Economists and Agribusiness - Stowarzyszenie Ekonomistow Rolnictwa e Agrobiznesu (SERiA), vol. 2023(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:paaero:339995
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.339995
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