Enhancing parcel delivery services through efficient mapping and area planning Innovative web-based logistic solution rearranges postal codes and subareas Case StudyThe Task A smart area planning tool for smarter parcel logistics The Challenge Maximising delivery efficiency and minimising eco-footprint DPD’s delivery service had previously been organised on the basis of the existing German postal code system. However, the underlying structural features of the system were more and more compromised by inhomogeneity, fragmentation and other size-related issues, which all but inevitably started to inhibit efficient control, economic route planning and pre-sorting in the company’s local and regional delivery business. In view of a daily transport volume of no fewer than 1.5 m parcels,

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