page_title: Last mile (transportation)
hierarchical_section_title: Last mile (transportation)
caption_attribution_description: Capital Bikeshare rental station near McPherson Square Metro (WMATA) station, downtown Washington, D.C.
context_page_description: Last mile is a term used in supply chain management and transportation planning to describe the movement of people and goods from a transportation hub to a final destination. "Last mile" was adopted from the telecommunications industry which faced difficulty connecting individual homes to the main telecommunications network. Similarly, in supply chain management last mile describes the difficulty in transporting people and packages from hubs to final destinations. Last mile delivery is an increasingly studied field as the number of business to consumer deliveries grow especially from e-commerce companies in freight transportation, and ride sharing companies in personal transportation. Some challenges of last mile delivery include minimizing cost, ensuring transparency, increasing efficiency, and improving infrastructure.
context_section_description: Last mile is a term used in supply chain management and transportation planning to describe the movement of people and goods from a transportation hub to a final destination. "Last mile" was adopted from the telecommunications industry which faced difficulty connecting individual homes to the main telecommunications network. Similarly, in supply chain management last mile describes the difficulty in transporting people and packages from hubs to final destinations. Last mile delivery is an increasingly studied field as the number of business to consumer (b2c) deliveries grow especially from e-commerce companies in freight transportation, and ride sharing companies in personal transportation. Some challenges of last mile delivery include minimizing cost, ensuring transparency, increasing efficiency, and improving infrastructure.
caption: Bicycle sharing systems such as Washington's Capital Bikeshare have been cited as a way to alleviate the "last mile problem."
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "Capital Bikeshare rental station near McPherson Square Metro (WMATA) station, downtown Washington, D.C.", "Image Make": "SONY", "Image Model": "DSC-T77", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2010:10:09 11:46:09", "Image Artist": "Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image Copyright": "2010 Mariordo@aol.com", "Image XPTitle": "[67, 0, 97, 0, 112, 0, 105, 0, 116, 0, 97, 0, 108, 0, 32, 0, 66, 0, 105, 0, ... ]", "Image XPAuthor": "Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 51, 48, 48, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0]", "Image Padding": "[]", "Image ExifOffset": "2804", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "5446", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7817", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/100", "EXIF FNumber": "9/2", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2010:10:07 08:25:29", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2010:10:07 08:25:29", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "29/8", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, auto mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "309/50", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1800", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1200", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "5332", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Landscape", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF Padding": "[]", "EXIF OffsetSchema": "4296"}