The drone-assisted pickup and delivery problem: An adaptive large neighborhood search metaheuristic

T Mulumba, W Najy, A Diabat - Computers & Operations Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, for last-mile delivery
has grown in popularity in research and industry over the last decade. We propose a …

A multi-algorithm approach for operational human resources workload balancing in a last mile urban delivery system

LM Moreno-Saavedra, S Jiménez-Fernández… - Computers & Operations …, 2024 - Elsevier
Efficient workload assignment to the workforce is critical in last-mile package delivery
systems. The explosive increase of e-commerce and last-mile package logistics after the …

Impact of Drone Battery Recharging Policy on Overall Carbon Emissions: The Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone

E Es Yurek - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the traveling salesman problem with drone (TSP-D) from a
sustainability perspective. In this problem, a truck and a drone simultaneously serve …

[HTML][HTML] Exact and heuristic approaches for the Truck–Drone Team Logistics Problem

M Boccia, A Mancuso, A Masone, C Sterle - Transportation Research Part …, 2024 - Elsevier
Truck-and-drone routing problems are a topic of increasing interest due to advancements in
drone technology. Initially, drones were thought to serve only one customer per flight; …

Vehicle relocation and staff rebalance problem in one-way free-floating car-sharing system: A novel multi-iteration probabilistic greedy algorithm

T Tian, Y Liu, B Yan, J Li - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
This research aims to address the staff-based vehicle relocation problem that arises in a one-
way car-sharing system operating in a combined mode, in which both on-street parking slots …

A branch-and-price-and-cut algorithm for the unmanned aerial vehicle delivery with battery swapping

Z Pei, W Pan, K Weng, T Fang - International Journal of Production …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In the UAV-based urban delivery setting, the battery capacity serves as one of the key factors
affecting the delivery range of drones. For a typical multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle …

The Flying Sidekick Traveling Salesman Problem with Multiple Drops: A Simple and Effective Heuristic Approach

SK Schaumann, A Kundu, JC Pina-Pardo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study the Flying Sidekick Traveling Salesman Problem with Multiple Drops (FSTSP-MD),
a multi-modal last-mile delivery model where a single truck and a single drone cooperatively …

Optimizing the Hub-and-Spoke Network with Drone-Based Traveling Salesman Problem

CF Gao, ZH Hu, YZ Wang - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
The hub-and-spoke network (HSN) design generally assumes direct transportation between
a spoke node and its assigned hub, while the spoke's demand may be far less than a …

A Predictive-Reactive Optimization Framework With Feedback-Based Knowledge Distillation for On-Demand Food Delivery

J Zheng, L Wang, JF Chen, Z Pan, D Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-demand food delivery (OFD) service is a representative scenario of last-mile logistics. It
has gained a fast-growing market but also encounters many challenges, eg, high dynamism …

Truck-Drone Hybrid Delivery Routing: A Mathematical Model and Micro-Evolutionary Algorithm

J Bian, R Song, S He, J Chi - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study investigates a Feasibility-assured Mothership System (FAMS) model for truck-
drone hybrid delivery. As a mothership system variant, it is considered to be able to bring …