Abstract Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods,
models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This …

Given the continuing e-commerce boom, the design of efficient and effective home delivery
services is increasingly relevant. From a logistics perspective, attended home delivery …

The COVID Pandemic since early 2019 has imposed significant effects on our life. In the
retail and logistics sector, the large-scale national lockdown has drastically driven e …

The rise of e-commerce has completely transformed the dynamicity and problem nature of
last-mile delivery, owing to significant B2C customer demand in compact urban areas. Given …

On-demand delivery services are three-sided markets that enable interactions between
customers and suppliers with the help of crowdsourced drivers. Customers and suppliers …

We study the design of same-day delivery (SDD) systems under the assumption that service
regions are allowed to vary over the course of the day; equivalently, that customers in …

The e-commerce industry has experienced significant growth in the past decade, particularly
post-COVID. To accommodate such growth, the parcel delivery sector has also grown …

On-time last-mile delivery is expanding rapidly as people expect faster delivery of goods
ranging from grocery to medicines. Managing on-time delivery systems is challenging …

Crowdsourced delivery platforms operate as an intermediary between consumers who
require delivery tasks and couriers who make these deliveries; both of which are uncertain …

With the rise in demand for local deliveries and e-commerce, robotic deliveries are being
considered as efficient and sustainable solutions. However, the deployment of such systems …