Crowdsourcing in Logistics
- Author(s)
- Andreas Mladenow, Christine Bauer, Christine Strauss
- Abstract
The introduction of crowdsourcing offers numerous business opportunities. In recent years, manifold forms of crowdsourcing have emerged on the market – also in logistics. Thereby, the ubiquitous availability and sensor-supported assistance functions of mobile devices support crowdsourcing applications, which promotes contextual interactions between users at the right place at the right time. This paper presents the results of an in-depth analysis on crowdsourcing in logistics in the course of ongoing research in the field of location-based crowdsourcing (LBCS). This paper analyzes LBCS for both, ‘classic’ logistics as well as ‘information’ logistics. Real-world examples of crowdsourcing applications are used to underpin the two evaluated types of logistics using crowdsourcing. Potential advantages and challenges of logistics with the crowd (‘crowd-logistics’) are discussed. Accordingly, this paper aims to provide the necessary basis for a novel interdisciplinary research field.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Accounting, Innovation and Strategy
- External organisation(s)
- Universität zu Köln
- Pages
- 244-251
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2837185.2837242
- Publication date
- 12-2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 502052 Business administration, 102029 Practical computer science, 502050 Business informatics, 502017 Logistics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Science Applications
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/crowdsourcing-in-logistics(537c8e91-a89d-4feb-876e-573e22cef421).html