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China Region Special Section: Big Trends

Is Last-Mile Delivery a 'Killer App' for Self-Driving Vehicles?

By Huaxia Xia, Haiming Yang
Communications of the ACM, November 2018, Vol. 61 No. 11, Pages 70-75
10.1145/3239552
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Is Last-Mile Delivery a Killer App, illustration — Credit: Chesky

China's e-commerce boom has generated a huge logistics demand, both in terms of express package delivery and on-demand food delivery.^a

Chinese express firms delivered an estimated 40 billion parcels in 2017; up 28% from the previous year.² Indeed, China's on-demand delivery market exceeded over 30 million food orders daily by yearend 2017.

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