Low capital and operation cost e-commerce logistics system that allows for the fast and massive delivery of e-commerce merchandise to high-population density urban areas

A low capital and operation cost e-commerce logistics system for improved efficiency of fast and massive delivery of e-commerce merchandise to high-population density urban areas, the system comprising:

• a computing system (3) configured to receive fulfillment information (23) of at least 1,000 orders per day placed from at least one of an online shopping platform or a consumer (22);
• where the computing system (3) is in network connection or in communication with the at least one Central Fulfillment Center (CFC) (2), in order to receive fulfillment information of the placed orders and to select and sort, based on the fulfillment information received, the e-commerce merchandise as at least one of a multibox package (41), an individual package, or combinations thereof;
• at least one air-cargo (43) that carries the e-commerce merchandise that is to be delivered into a final logistics point (11) located within a high-density population urban area, the air-cargo (43) comprising the at least one of a multibox package (41), an individual package, or combinations thereof;
• at least one sourcing location (17) for the e-commerce merchandise, where the sourcing location (17) comprises at least one of a CFC (2) that has a storage area of at least about 5,000 m2, a height of at least two meters between a floor and a top-most roof of the CFC (2) and configured to store at least 10,000 items of e-commerce merchandise, an outbound sorting center (14), a drop zone (8), or a transfer airport (12);
• at least one designated urban delivery area (18), and at least one manned urban delivery aircraft (5a) configured to carry the at least one air-cargo (43), where the aircraft (5a) is capable of carrying a total air-cargo load of at least 200 kilograms in average and that allows to deliver the air-cargo (43) to the at least one urban delivery area (18), and wherein the delivery of the air-cargo (43) is performed through an aerial delivery into the designated urban delivery area (18), wherein performing the aerial delivery comprises affixing the at least one air-cargo (43) to pulley systems or cable systems attached to the manned urban delivery aircraft (5a), and using the pulley systems or cable systems to lower the at least one air cargo into a flexible net or a flexible sheet positioned within the urban delivery area (18);
• and
• at least one delivery system arranged to deliver the e-commerce merchandise to consumers from the urban delivery area (18);
• wherein the computing system is further configured to determine an efficiency of the system using an Urban Delivery Index and adjust operations of the system based on the efficiency determined using the Urban Delivery Index to maintain a positive value for the Urban Delivery Index, wherein the Urban Delivery Index is:
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• where:
• WUD is the average weight of the air-cargo (43) that is delivered to the urban delivery area in kilograms (kg)
• WIUD is an index relating to the average weight of the air-cargo (43) that contains the e-commerce merchandise and that is delivered through the aircraft (5a) as part of the system and method of the present invention, and is a binary number, wherein the binary number is 0 when WUD is less than or equal to 5 kg and the binary number is 1 when WUD is greater than 5 kg
• d is the average distance that the air-cargo (43) travels from the Sourcing location (17) to the final logistics point (11) or urban delivery area (18)
• nC is the average number of different customers (22) that receive their e-commerce merchandise through the system and method of the present invention for urban deliveries, and
• wherein the operations of the system comprise the average weight of the air cargo, the average distance the air-cargo travels, and the average number of different customers.