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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …