Driven by the internet-based advanced information technologies and logistics channel
improvement, the cross-border e-commerce industry keeps an increasing trend in Chinese …

In light of labor shortages, rising fuel costs, and thin profit margins, providers of last-mile
delivery services face a mounting pressure to innovate. One avenue to more efficient last …

Flexible buses provide on-demand services to one or more local communities in a specific
geographical area. Bus routes can be adjusted dynamically according to real-time …

This paper considers how an online food delivery platform can improve last-mile delivery
services' performance using multi-source data. The delivery time is one critical but uncertain …

Vehicle routing problems with time windows (VRPTW) have gained a lot of attention due to
their important role in real-life logistics and transport. As a result of the complexity of real-life …

Modern technologies provide new opportunities for the industry but raise the expectations of
the customers as well. This is valid also for the postal, courier, and logistics industries. The …

Current growth in e-commerce and online sales has confronted companies with major
logistical challenges arising in the area of last mile distribution. Small order quantities, the …

We define a pickup and delivery routing problem with time windows that arises in last-mile
delivery. A customer can be served either directly at home, by one of the available …

We consider the last mile delivery system with roaming delivery locations and stochastic
travel times. The problem is formulated as a two-stage stochastic programming model with …

In this paper, we consider the use of lockers in parcel delivery, a recent method used in last
mile logistics. Lockers are pickup points made of several cells that are located in several …