Recently, a taxonomic review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature published
between 2009 and June 2015 stated that most of the surveyed articles use metaheuristics …

Over the past decades, the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and its variants have grown ever
more popular in the academic literature. Yet, the problem characteristics and assumptions …

This paper deals with the problem of coordinating a truck and multiple heterogeneous
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) for last-mile package deliveries. Existing …

The fast and cost-efficient home delivery of goods ordered online is logistically challenging.
Many companies are looking for new ways to cross the last mile to their customers. One …

The last mile of freight distribution is a critical part of the supply chain because of its
significant costs and customers' increasing expectations from e-commerce and same-day …

The truck-drone hybrid delivery system uses a truck as a station for drones in addition to its
delivery function and is getting attention because the strengths of these individual vehicles …

This paper presents a mathematical formulation and efficient solution methodology for the
hybrid vehicle-drone routing problem (HVDRP) for pick-up and delivery services. The …

With growing consumer demand and expectations, companies are attempting to achieve
cost-efficient and faster delivery operations. The integration of autonomous vehicles, such as …

To reduce the negative impact of excessive traffic in large urban areas, many innovative
concepts for intelligent transportation of people and freight have recently been developed …

The design of distribution systems raises hard combinatorial optimization problems. For
instance, facility location problems must be solved at the strategic decision level to place …