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 …

Widespread adoption of green vehicles in urban logistics may contribute to the alleviation of
problems such as environmental pollution, global warming, and oil dependency. However …

The use of drones for parcel delivery has recently attracted wide attention due to its potential
in improving efficiency of the last-mile delivery. Though attempts have been made on …

Energy consumption has become a crucial problem in the design of vehicle routing
problems, hence the need to use another delivery method powered by batteries. Unmanned …

In this paper, we introduce the multiple Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone Stations
(mTSP-DS), which is an extension to the classical multiple Traveling Salesman Problem …

Owing to the continued development of e-commerce, logisticians now have an outstanding
obligation to tackle last-mile delivery challenges. A number of logistics providers have …

Utilizing drones for delivery is an effective approach to enhancing delivery efficiency and
lowering expenses. However, to overcome the delivery range and payload capacity …

Road autonomous mobile robots have attracted the attention of delivery companies and
policy makers owing to their potential to reduce costs and increase urban freight efficiency …

Abstract Synchronization of the Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone (TSP-D) is one of
the most complex NP-hard combinatorial routing problems in the literature. The speeds …

Following the widespread interest of both the scientific community and companies in using
autonomous vehicles to perform deliveries, we propose the 'Drone-Assisted Vehicle Routing …