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Table 7 Estimation of potential demand for crowdshipping by public transport and potential crowdshippers in Rome (year 2025)

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

Demand

SCENARIOS

Metro usersa

[users/peak hour]

Inhabitantsb

Probability to adoptcrowdshipping service

Potential demand [orders/day]

SCENARIO 1

138′421

709′579

66.10%

29′540

SCENARIO 2

59.70%

26′680

SCENARIO 3

16.40%

7′330

SCENARIO 4

12.40%

5′540

Supply

SCENARIOS

Metro usersa

[users/peak hour]

Probability to actas a crowdshippers

Potential crowdshippers[crowdshippers/day]

SCENARIO 1

138′421

84.6%

46′840

SCENARIO 2

54.8%

30′340

SCENARIO 3

46.0%

25′470

SCENARIO 4

12.8%

7′090

  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)