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 …

Environmental pollution from express packaging waste is a crucial issue for the
development of sustainable city logistics. The use of recyclable express packaging can …

Routing and path planning problems that involve spatial coverage have received increasing
attention in recent years in different application areas. Spatial coverage refers to the …

This article introduces a new deep learning approach to approximately solve the covering
salesman problem (CSP). In this approach, given the city locations of a CSP as input, a deep …

This paper presents a study on the application of Autonomous Delivery Vehicles (ADVs) in
last-mile delivery for urban logistics. Specifically, we focus on a routing problem using multi …

With the advent of e-commerce and its fast-delivery expectations, efficiently routing pickers
in warehouses and distribution centers has received renewed interest. The processes and …

This study proposes a covering delivery problem (CDP), which has practical applications in
last mile parcel delivery in online shopping. A set of vertices are considered, including …

This article concerns the location of satellite distribution centers (SDCs) to supply
humanitarian aid to the affected people throughout a disaster area. In such situations, it is …

We propose a generalization of the multi-depot capacitated vehicle routing problem where
the assumption of visiting each customer does not hold. In this problem, called the Multi …

This paper introduces a simultaneous facility location and vehicle routing problem that
arises in health care logistics in the Netherlands. In this problem, the delivery of medication …