A three-phase heuristic for last-mile delivery with spatial-temporal consolidation and delivery options

X Peng, L Zhang, RG Thompson, K Wang - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The parcel demand in last-mile delivery increases sharply with the growth of e-commerce,
which has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The current delivery scheme …

The restaurant meal delivery problem: Dynamic pickup and delivery with deadlines and random ready times

MW Ulmer, BW Thomas, AM Campbell… - Transportation …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a stochastic dynamic pickup and delivery problem in which a fleet of drivers
delivers food from a set of restaurants to ordering customers. The objective is to dynamically …

Location-routing problem with simultaneous home delivery and customer's pickup for city distribution of online shopping purchases

L Zhou, X Wang, L Ni, Y Lin - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
With the increasing interest in online shopping, the Last Mile delivery is regarded as one of
the most expensive and pollutive—and yet the least efficient—stages of the e-commerce …

Solving the location-routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery by simulated annealing

VF Yu, SY Lin - International Journal of Production Research, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The study concerns the location-routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery
(LRPSPD) in which the pickup and delivery take place at the same time for each customer …

Innovative logistics model and containers solution for efficient last mile delivery

M Dell'Amico, S Hadjidimitriou - Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
Urban goods distribution is important for the economy. However urban transport causes
traffic, noise and pollution. The European Research project CityLog (part of Framework …

The selective pickup and delivery problem: Formulation and a memetic algorithm

CK Ting, XL Liao - International Journal of Production Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
The pickup and delivery problem addresses the real-world issues in logistic industry and
establishes an important category of vehicle routing problems. The problem is to find the …

Optimal mathematical programming for the warehouse location problem with Euclidean distance linearization

M You, Y Xiao, S Zhang, P Yang, S Zhou - Computers & Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
The warehouse location problem (WLP) involves determining one (or multiple) locations as
the materials/products collecting/distributing centers for serving a group of customers …

[HTML][HTML] The pickup and delivery problem with cross-docking

FA Santos, GR Mateus, AS Da Cunha - Computers & Operations Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Usual models that deal with the integration of vehicle routing and cross-docking operations
impose that every vehicle must stop at the dock even if the vehicle collects and delivers the …

Vehicle routing with private and shared delivery locations

S Mancini, M Gansterer - Computers & Operations Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapid growth of e-commerce has led to an increase of home delivery requests. Providing
efficient distribution systems for services on the last mile has become a challenging issue for …

An inventory-routing problem with pickups and deliveries arising in the replenishment of automated teller machines

RG Van Anholt, LC Coelho, G Laporte… - Transportation …, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
The purpose of this paper is to introduce, model, and solve a rich multiperiod inventory-
routing problem with pickups and deliveries motivated by the replenishment of automated …