Crowd-ship** promises social, economic, and environmental benefits covering a range of
stakeholders. Yet, at the same time, many crowd-ship** initiatives face multiple barriers …

Research on dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing problems received increasing interest
in the last decade. It considers a novel problem class, aiming at an appropriate handling of …

Parcel services route vehicles to pick up parcels in the service area. Pickup requests occur
dynamically during the day and are unknown before their actual request. Because of …

This paper addresses the dispatching problem faced by an urban consolidation center. The
center receives orders according to a stochastic arrival process and dispatches them in …

In practical applications like parcel or technician services, customers request service during
the day. Service providers decide whether to accept a customer for same-day service or to …

In this paper, the authors consider the vehicle routing problem (VRP) with stochastic
demand and/or dynamic requests. The classical VRP consists of determining a set of routes …

Bike sharing systems (BSS) provide individual and eco-friendly urban mobility and are
implemented in a growing number of cities. In BSS, customers can rent and return bikes …

Dynamic vehicle dispatching and routing problems can be tackled by using either reactive
policies (that optimize the overall inconvenience on the pending requests) or anticipatory …

The rise of mobile communication, ample computing power, and Amazon's training of
customers has led to last-mile delivery challenges and created struggles for companies …

Bike sharing systems have been launched in many cities. Such systems consist of stations
allowing users to rent and return bikes. Due to spatio-temporal variation of requests …