Truck-drone joint delivery network for rural area: Optimization and implications

J Lu, Y Liu, C Jiang, W Wu - Transport Policy, 2025 - Elsevier
Parcel delivery in rural areas suffers from low efficiency due to low drop density and high
delivery costs. In the sense, we examine a new method of delivering packages using trucks …

[HTML][HTML] An adapted savings algorithm for planning heterogeneous logistics with uncrewed aerial vehicles

A Oakey, A Martinez-Sykora, T Cherrett - Multimodal Transportation, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new extension to the Sustainable Specimen Collection Problem
(SSCP), where medical specimens are transported by vans, bikes, and uncrewed aerial …

Planning and operational considerations for a drone logistics future

M Grote, A Oakey, A Pilko, A Smith, J Krol, A Blakesley… - 2024 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or drones) are being used successfully in many visual-line-
of-sight applications such as surveying, photography, inspection, and monitoring. Interest in …

Uncrewed aerial systems operational risk analysis

A Pilko - 2024 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
Uncrewed Aircraft present an ever growing number of use cases from remote sensing to
logistics with projections for large numbers in the skies of the future. Segregating airspace …