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 …

Crowd-Ship** (CS) solutions have been gaining popularity in industry and academia.
Despite numerous CS platforms having been introduced in the real world, only a limited …

Crowdship** is increasingly known as a sustainable solution to address the challenges of
last mile delivery (LMD) in urban areas. While employing the crowd to perform LMD appears …

We investigate a vehicle routing problem in which customer requests are either known in
advance with respect to the planning of the distribution, or they arrive online during the …

The promotion of urban mobility by integrating people-and-goods transportation has
attracted increasing attention in recent years. Within this framework, diversified forms such …

This research introduces a new variant of the vehicle routing problem in the last-mile
delivery process-namely, the Crowd-Ship** Problem with Time Windows, Transshipment …

In this paper, we present the vehicle routing problem (VRP) with occasional drivers (OD) and
order bundles (OB). The problem VRP-OD-OB is an extension of the VRP-OD, where …

E-commerce continues to grow throughout the world due to people's preference to stay at
home rather than going to a brick-and-mortar retail store. COVID-19 has exacerbated this …

The logistics industry is known to suffer from inefficiencies. Recently published numbers on
the percentage of trucks running idle or almost idle on European road networks are …

The vehicle routing problem with time windows and occasional drivers (VRPODTW) is an
extension of the vehicle routing problem with time windows, where ordinary people may …