Opportunities for reinforcement learning in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing

FD Hildebrandt, BW Thomas, MW Ulmer - Computers & operations …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
There has been a paradigm-shift in urban logistic services in the last years; demand for real-
time, instant mobility and delivery services grows. This poses new challenges to logistic …

Reinforcement learning for logistics and supply chain management: Methodologies, state of the art, and future opportunities

Y Yan, AHF Chow, CP Ho, YH Kuo, Q Wu… - … Research Part E …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
With advances in technologies, data science techniques, and computing equipment, there
has been rapidly increasing interest in the applications of reinforcement learning (RL) to …

Same-day delivery with fair customer service

X Chen, T Wang, BW Thomas, MW Ulmer - European journal of operational …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The demand for same-day delivery (SDD) has increased rapidly in the last few years and
has particularly boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fast growth is not without its …

[HTML][HTML] Container port truck dispatching optimization using Real2Sim based deep reinforcement learning

J **, T Cui, R Bai, R Qu - European Journal of Operational Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
In marine container terminals, truck dispatching optimization is often considered as the
primary focus as it provides crucial synergy between the sea-side operations and yard-side …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in integrating demand management and vehicle routing: A methodological review

D Fleckenstein, R Klein, C Steinhardt - European Journal of Operational …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In logistics and mobility services, new business models such as “attended home
delivery”,“same-day delivery”, and “mobility-on-demand” have been successfully …

Smart Delivery assignment through machine learning and the Hungarian algorithm

JP Vásconez, E Schotborgh, IN Vásconez, V Moya… - Smart Cities, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Intelligent transportation and advanced mobility techniques focus on hel** operators to
efficiently manage navigation tasks in smart cities, enhancing cost efficiency, increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Review of stochastic dynamic vehicle routing in the evolving urban logistics environment

N Mardešić, T Erdelić, T Carić, M Đurasević - Mathematics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Urban logistics encompass transportation and delivery operations within densely populated
urban areas. It faces significant challenges from the evolving dynamic and stochastic nature …

Decision support through deep reinforcement learning for maximizing a courier's monetary gain in a meal delivery environment

W Zhou, H Fotouhi, E Miller-Hooks - Decision Support Systems, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Meal delivery is a fast-growing industry supported by couriers participating in the gig
economy. This paper takes a single courier's perspective and provides decision support for …

Order dispatching via GNN-based optimization algorithm for on-demand food delivery

JF Chen, L Wang, Y Liang, Y Yu, J Feng… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As one representative of last-mile logistics in intelligent transportation systems, the on-
demand food delivery (OFD) service has gained rapid market growth but also faces multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-agent reinforcement learning for online food delivery with location privacy preservation

S Abahussein, D Ye, C Zhu, Z Cheng, U Siddique… - Information, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Online food delivery services today are considered an essential service that gets significant
attention worldwide. Many companies and individuals are involved in this field as it offers …