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Table 6 Estimation of potential demand for crowdshipping by public transport and potential crowdshippers in Rome (current state)

From: Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries

Demand

SCENARIOS

Metro usersa

[users/peak hour]

Inhabitantsb

Probability to adopt crowdshipping service

Potential demand [orders/day]

SCENARIO 1

113′347

647′154

66.10%

14′100

SCENARIO 2

59.70%

12′730

SCENARIO 3

16.40%

3′500

SCENARIO 4

12.40%

2′640

Supply

SCENARIOS

Metro usersa

[users/peak hour]

Probability to act as a crowdshippers

Potential crowdshippers [crowdshippers/day]

SCENARIO 1

113′347

84.6%

38′350

SCENARIO 2

54.8%

24′840

SCENARIO 3

46.0%

20′850

SCENARIO 4

12.8%

5′800

  1. aUsers of the Rome’s metro lines during the peak hour (Roma Mobilità, [47])
  2. bInhabitants in the 800’meters catchment area (elaboration from census data ISTAT 2011, https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/104317)