Half a decade in two years: household freight after COVID-19

J Beckers, J Cant - Transport Reviews, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT E-commerce growth as experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic was only
expected to occur by 2025–2030. Online shopping increased in intensity and diversity. At …

An optimization-based approach for the healthcare districting under uncertainty

SM Darmian, M Fattahi, E Keyvanshokooh - Computers & Operations …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we address a districting problem motivated by a real-world case study to
partition residential areas of a region for a healthcare system operation under interval …

Reconfiguration of last-mile supply chain for parcel delivery using machine learning and routing optimization

A Ramírez-Villamil, JR Montoya-Torres… - Computers & Industrial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Last-mile delivery has several negative environmental impacts in urban areas because of its
high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, as well as traffic congestion …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring Logistics-as-a-Service to integrate the consumer into urban freight

J Beckers, I Cardenas, M Le Pira, J Zhang - Research in Transportation …, 2023 - Elsevier
E-commerce established the consumer as a freight actor. This new reality in the e-commerce
supply chain holds economic, social, and environmental opportunities. First, logistics service …

Dynamic community partitioning for e-commerce last mile delivery with time window constraints

Z Ouyang, EKH Leung, Y Cai, GQ Huang - Computers & Operations …, 2023 - Elsevier
Community logistics (CL) is a recently proposed delivery strategy designed to deal with e-
commerce last-mile delivery scheduling by dynamically assigning vehicles to designated …

Territory design for the multi-period vehicle routing problem with time windows

H Lespay, K Suchan - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This study introduces the Territory Design for the Multi-Period Vehicle Routing Problem with
Time Windows (TD-MPVRPTW) problem, motivated by a real-world application at a food …

Many-objective sectorization for last-mile delivery optimization: A decision support system

G Torres, T Fontes, AM Rodrigues, P Rocha… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
The efficient last-mile delivery of goods involves complex challenges in optimizing driver
sectors and routes. This problem tends to be large-scale and involves several criteria to …

A continuous approximation approach to integrated truck and drone delivery systems

J Zhang, JF Campbell, DC Sweeney II - Omega, 2024 - Elsevier
Home package delivery by drones as an alternative or complement to traditional delivery by
trucks is attracting considerable attention from the commercial sector as well as academia …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient probability-based VNS algorithm for delivery territory design

A Aly, AF Gabor, N Mladenovic… - Computers & Operations …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the Delivery Territory Design Problem (DTDP), a districting problem
that often occurs in delivery operations. The goal of the problem is to construct clusters of …

An End-to-End Predict-Then-Optimize Clustering Method for Stochastic Assignment Problems

J Zhang, E Shan, L Wu, J Yin, L Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Express pickup and delivery systems play crucial roles in contemporary urban areas.
Couriers within these systems retrieve packages from designated Areas of Interest (AOI) that …