Combining trucks and drones in package delivery provides a promising venue for a future
logistics system that is more efficient and sustainable than the existing one. However, how to …

The rising competition in the logistics sector forces companies to be more economically
efficient. One of the major sources of inefficiency is the incomplete usage of available …

The rapid growth of e-commerce has led to an increase of home delivery requests. Providing
efficient distribution systems for services on the last mile has become a challenging issue for …

Efficiently predicting traffic congestion benefits various traffic stakeholders, from regular
commuters and logistic operators to urban planners and responsible authorities. This study …

We study a new problem named the Time-dependent Electric Vehicle Routing Problem
(TDEVRP) which involves routing a fleet of electric vehicles to serve a set of customers and …

To reduce delivery failures in last mile delivery, several types of delivery options have been
proposed in the past twenty years. Still, customer satisfaction is a challenge because a …

Previous analysis suggested the opportunity to consider the preferences of different
stakeholders (hospital, patients, doctors and nurses) through the adoption of both patient …

This research introduces a new variant of two-echelon vehicle routing problems inspired
from the city logistics. The problem considers a two-echelon freight distribution network …

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) and its variants are a class of network problems that
have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years, owing to their pragmatic …

This work presents a bi-objective time-dependent vehicle routing problem with delivery
failure probabilities (TDVRPDFP). Two objectives are jointly minimized: operational costs …