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Network Design and Last-Leg Delivery Concepts

Ideas about how a transport or delivery network is laid out and how its final stage reaches the customer, such as routing traffic through central hubs instead of linking every pair of places directly, and the costly last stage that carries goods or passengers from a transport hub to their final destination. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the concept a network design, a hub arrangement or the final delivery leg of a journey or shipment. It excludes inventory and supply planning ideas, which belong with the supply chain concepts. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.

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Wikipedia: Spoke-hub Distribution Paradigm
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The spoke-hub distribution paradigm (also known as the hub-and-spoke system) is a form of transport topology optimization in which traffic planners organize routes as a series of spokes that connect outlying points to a central "hub".
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Wikipedia: Last Mile (Transportation)
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In supply chain management and transportation planning, the last mile or last kilometer is the last leg of a journey that comprises the movement of passengers and goods from their point of origin or a transportation hub to a final destination.
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