Urban last-mile delivery faces great challenges to satisfy growing customer demand with faster, punctual delivery expectations, under tight budgets and environmental requirements. The recently introduced physical internet (PI) offers a conceptual framework to address these challenges, overcoming low efficiency of current fragmented logistics operations with seamless asset sharing and flow consolidation leveraging hyperconnected systems. This article first provides a decision and system architecture for hyperconnected urban logistics, then investigates its potential at a strategic level through a simulation-based experiment in the context of large-item delivery. The results clearly demonstrate the potential of hyperconnected urban logsitics by concurrently improving often opposing measures: economic efficiency, service capability and sustainability.

在预算紧张和环境要求严格的前提下，以更快，更准时的交付期望值满足日益增长的客户需求，城市最后一英里交付面临巨大挑战。最近推出的物理互联网（PI）提供了解决这些挑战的概念框架，通过利用超连接系统进行无缝资产共享和流程整合来克服当前零散的物流运营效率低下的问题。本文首先提供了超连通城市物流的决策和系统架构，然后在大项目交付的背景下通过基于模拟的实验在战略层面研究了其潜力。结果通过同时改进通常相反的措施：经济效率，服务能力和可持续性，清楚地证明了高度互联的城市物流的潜力。