Innovative solutions in last mile delivery: concepts, practices, challenges, and future directions

WAM Mohammad, Y Nazih Diab… - Supply Chain Forum …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the last decade, e-commerce has been growing consistently. Fostered by the covid
pandemic, online retail has grown exponentially, particularly in industries including food …

[HTML][HTML] Urban air mobility for last-mile transportation: A review

N Moradi, C Wang, F Mafakheri - Vehicles, 2024 - mdpi.com
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a revolutionary approach to transportation in densely populated
cities. UAM involves using small, highly automated aircraft to transport passengers and …

An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the flying sidekick traveling salesman problem with multiple drops

STW Mara, AP Rifai, BM Sopha - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Drones are the latest trend in commercial logistics research, especially in the context of last-
mile delivery. Combining a drone and a truck offers numerous distinctive capabilities that …

Sustainable last mile parcel delivery and return service using drones

N Yanpirat, DF Silva, AE Smith - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Improving last mile delivery, in terms of both efficiency and sustainability, has recently been
enhanced using truck/drone tandems. However, nearly all these approaches focus only on …

The vehicle routing problem with drones and drone speed selection

F Tamke, U Buscher - Computers & Operations Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Joint parcel delivery by trucks and drones has enjoyed significant attention for some time, as
the advantages of one delivery method offset the disadvantages of the other. This paper …

A logic-based Benders decomposition method for the multi-trip traveling repairman problem with drones

ME Bruni, S Khodaparasti, M Moshref-Javadi - Computers & Operations …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper considers the problem of delivering a certain number of packages to a set of
customers using multiple drones dispatched from a single truck. Once a drone delivers a …

Multi-objective optimization algorithm with adaptive resource allocation for truck-drone collaborative delivery and pick-up services

Q Luo, G Wu, A Trivedi, F Hong, L Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To efficiently implement the truck-drone collaborative logistics system, we introduce a multi-
objective truck-drone collaborative routing problem with delivery and pick-up services …

Multiple traveling salesperson problem with drones: General variable neighborhood search approach

B İbroşka, S Özpeynirci, Ö Özpeynirci - Computers & Operations Research, 2023 - Elsevier
A key factor to consider in the development of new technologies in a number of fields is the
use of unmanned aerial vehicles. This rapidly develo** technology is used in military …

[HTML][HTML] The drone-assisted variable speed asymmetric traveling salesman problem

G Campuzano, E Lalla-Ruiz, M Mes - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
We introduce and solve the Drone-Assisted Variable Speed Asymmetric Traveling
Salesman Problem, which considers different flight times for the drone depending on the …

Traveling salesman problem with drone under recharging policy

EE Yurek, HC Ozmutlu - Computer Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
The traveling salesman problem is one of the most studied problems in combinatorial
optimization. An emerging variant of this problem, which is referred to as the traveling …