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 …

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 …

During recent years, several companies have introduced small autonomous delivery robots
and evidenced their technical applicability in field studies. However, a holistic planning …

Last-mile delivery with autonomous robots launched from dedicated delivery trucks is a
promising approach to reducing logistics costs and inner-city traffic. Current literature for this …

Innovative last-mile logistics solutions are needed to reduce delivery costs, traffic
congestion, and pollution in cities. A promising concept in this context are truck-and-robot …

This work addresses an operational problem of a logistics service provider that consists of
finding an optimal route for a vehicle carrying customer parcels from a central depot to …

We present a mathematical formulation and a heuristic solution approach for the optimal
planning of delivery routes in a multi-modal system combining truck and Unmanned Aerial …

We address the problem of routing a fleet of trucks equipped with unmanned aerial vehicles,
commonly known as drones, to perform deliveries in last‐mile delivery process. The …

E-Commerce and package deliveries are growing at a fast pace and there is an increased
demand for same-day deliveries. Established delivery companies and new startups are …

In this paper, we conduct a comparative analysis of three synchronized truck-and-drone
delivery models for package delivery. In these models, drones are launched from the truck to …