Hong, Z., Li, Z., Zhong, S. et al. Decarbonizing emissions from last-mile deliveries in Chinese cities. Nat Cities
Objective:
- Quantify the individual courier-level GHG emissions from 1.9 million delivery couriers and produce a fine-grained emission map
Case:
- China
Methodology:
- Mileage-based emission
Data Source
- E-commerce order data
- Mobile phone
- AOI
Findings:
- An 83.5% increase in orders from 2023 to 2024 resulted in only 31.3% additional emissions
- While larger cities produce higher total emissions, smaller cities show per-order emissions up to four times greater
