In the wake of e-commerce and its successful diffusion in most commercial activities, last-
mile distribution causes more and more trouble in urban areas all around the globe …

The ability to understand and explain the outcomes of data analysis methods, with regard to
aiding decision-making, has become a critical requirement for many applications. For …

The adoption of autonomous delivery robots (ADRs) across various delivery applications
has rapidly accelerated in recent years. This growth can be attributed to advancements in …

The performance of waste management system has been recently interrupted and
encountered a very serious situation due to the epidemic outbreak of the novel Coronavirus …

The transition to sustainable supply chains in industries where perishable products are
prominent requires advanced models for logistics management. In this paper, a model of …

In this paper, we introduce a new city logistics problem arising in the last mile distribution of
e-commerce. The problem involves two levels of routing problems. The first requires a …

To reduce congestion, environmental damage, and negative health impact in large urban
areas plenty of novel concepts for last-mile distribution have been innovated in the recent …

Electric commercial vehicles are expected to contribute significantly to the mobility of the
future. Furthermore, there are first pilot projects of logistics companies operating electric …

In this paper, we show how to extend solution methods for vehicle-routing problems with
intermediate stops (using the example of an Adaptive Variable Neighborhood Search …

In light of labor shortages, rising fuel costs, and thin profit margins, providers of last-mile
delivery services face a mounting pressure to innovate. One avenue to more efficient last …