In light of labor shortages, rising fuel costs, and thin profit margins, providers of last-mile
delivery services face a mounting pressure to innovate. One avenue to more efficient last …

Parcel lockers are considered an effective solution to address inefficiencies in last mile
delivery. However, choosing the appropriate location is crucial to provide optimal service …

Drones are increasingly used for last-mile delivery due to their speed and cost-effectiveness.
This study focuses on a novel locker-drone delivery system, where trucks transport parcels …

The rapid growth of electronic commerce is having an impact on the way urban logistics are
organized. In metropolitan settings, the last-mile delivery problem, ie, the problem regarding …

Freight transportation in urban areas represents an essential activity from the standpoint of
economic development; in recent years, the spread of e-commerce (also accelerated by …

In this study, we consider a setting in which a retail store uses occasional couriers (OCs),
which are not regular couriers but work as couriers on occasion, and in-store customers …

This paper proposes an urban delivery problem with conflicting time windows arising in the
urban last-mile delivery. The problem is to find a minimum cost tour over a set of customers …

Crowd-shipping is a last-mile delivery concept in which commuters pick up and deliver
parcels on their pre-existing paths. In urban areas, crowd-shipping circumvents problems …

Logistics has long been important in an industrial society. Compared with the traditional
structure of distribution, which requires freight to be delivered mostly to warehouses or retail …

In the increasingly competitive urban logistics delivery business field, enhancing last-mile
logistics efficiency with constrained budgets is crucial for logistics companies. With the …