Analysis and Empirical Study of Factors Influencing Urban Residents’ Acceptance of Routine Drone Deliveries
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Published:2023-09-06
Issue:18
Volume:15
Page:13335
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ISSN:2071-1050
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Container-title:Sustainability
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Sustainability
Author:
Zhang Zhao12, Xiao Chun-Yan1, Zhang Zhi-Guo1
Affiliation:
1. School of Logistics, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610103, China 2. Xichang Urban and Rural Grass-Roots Governance Center, Xichang 615000, China
Abstract
The usage of drone delivery couriers has multiple benefits over conventional methods, and it is expected to play a big role in the development of urban intelligent logistics. Many courier companies are currently attempting to deliver express delivery using drones in the hopes that this new type of tool used for delivery tasks will become the norm as soon as possible. However, most urban residents are currently unwilling to accept the use of drones to deliver express delivery as normal. This study aims to find out the reasons for the low acceptance of the normalization of drone delivery by urban residents and formulate a more reasonable management plan for drone delivery so that the normalization of drone delivery can be realized as soon as possible. A research questionnaire was scientifically formulated which received effective feedback from 231 urban residents in Jinjiang District, Chengdu City. A binary logistic model was used to determine the factors that can significantly influence the acceptance of residents. In addition, the fuzzy interpretive structural model(Fuzzy-ISM) was used to find out the logical relationship between the subfactors inherent to these influencing factors. It was concluded that when the infrastructure is adequate, increasing public awareness and education, enhancing the emergency plan, lowering delivery costs, enhancing delivery efficiency and network coverage, and bolstering the level of safety management can significantly raise resident acceptance of unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) delivery. Given the positional characteristics of the subfactors in the interpretive structural model(ISM) and matrices impacts croises-multiplication appliance classemen(MICMAC) in this study, we should first make sure that the drone delivery activities can be carried out in a safe and sustainable environment with all the necessary equipment, instead of focusing on increasing the residents’ acceptance right away, in the future work of regularized drone urban delivery has not yet started the construction phase. There should be more effort put into building the links that will enable acceptance to be improved with higher efficiency, which will be helpful to the early realization of the normalization of drone urban delivery if there is already a certain construction foundation in the case where the drone delivery environment is up to standard and hardware conditions are abundant.
Funder
Major projects of Sichuan social science research “14th Five-Year Plan”
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Geography, Planning and Development,Building and Construction
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