Last-mile delivery concepts: a survey from an operational research perspective

N Boysen, S Fedtke, S Schwerdfeger - Or Spectrum, 2021 - Springer
In the wake of e-commerce and its successful diffusion in most commercial activities, last-
mile distribution causes more and more trouble in urban areas all around the globe …

Drone-aided routing: A literature review

G Macrina, LDP Pugliese, F Guerriero… - … Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
The interest in using drones in various applications has grown significantly in recent years.
The reasons are related to the continuous advances in technology, especially the advent of …

Applications and Research avenues for drone-based models in logistics: A classification and review

M Moshref-Javadi, M Winkenbach - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
The operational design and planning of drone-based logistics models is a rapidly growing
area of scientific research. In this paper, we present a structured, comprehensive, and …

A critical review on unmanned aerial vehicles power supply and energy management: Solutions, strategies, and prospects

MN Boukoberine, Z Zhou, M Benbouzid - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The interest in electric unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly growing in recent years.
The reason is that UAVs have abilities to perform some difficult or dangerous tasks, with high …

Vehicle routing problem with drones considering time windows

RJ Kuo, SH Lu, PY Lai, STW Mara - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
The cooperation of trucks and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has become a new delivery
method in the area of logistics and transportation. In this form of cooperation, the trucks are …

Drones in last-mile delivery: A systematic review on Efficiency, Accessibility, and Sustainability

V Garg, S Niranjan, V Prybutok, T Pohlen… - … Research Part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rise of e-commerce, there has been a surge in demand for efficient and accessible
last-mile delivery options, leading to the examination of promising new technologies such as …

An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows and delivery robots

C Chen, E Demir, Y Huang - European journal of operational research, 2021 - Elsevier
Considering autonomous delivery robots in urban logistics has attracted a great deal of
attention in recent years. In the meantime, new technology has led to new operational …

Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV autonomous path planning

L He, N Aouf, B Song - Aerospace science and technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Autonomous navigation in unknown environment is still a hard problem for small Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Recently, some neural network-based methods are proposed to …

Last-mile drone delivery: Past, present, and future

H Eskandaripour, E Boldsaikhan - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sustainable green products and services garner more attention from companies and
enterprises that aim to succeed and grow in highly competitive markets by imposing less …

[HTML][HTML] Transportation technologies, sharing economy, and teleactivities: Implications for built environment and travel

K Mouratidis, S Peters, B van Wee - Transportation Research Part D …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reviews how teleactivities, the sharing economy, and emerging transportation
technologies–components of what we could call the “App City”–may influence travel …