Autonomous delivery robots: A literature review

M Hossain - IEEE Engineering Management Review, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous delivery robots (ADRs) are a recent advent in delivery services. While studies
on the technical aspects of ADRs are growing rapidly from technical perspectives, studies of …

Online flash delivery from multiple depots

M Kronmüller, A Fielbaum, J Alonso-Mora - Transportation Letters, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We study routing for on-demand last-mile logistics with two crucial novel features: i) Multiple
depots, optimizing where to pick-up every order, ii) Allowing vehicles to perform depot …

[HTML][HTML] Bringing home the bacon: Estimating willingness to pay for autonomous grocery delivery across US households

CR Forsythe, CD Harper, JJ Michalek - Transportation Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
We conduct a discrete choice experiment across 771 US households to estimate willingness
to pay (WTP) values for autonomous and human grocery delivery. We estimate that urban …

[HTML][HTML] An adaptive agent-based approach for instant delivery order dispatching: Incorporating task buffering and dynamic batching strategies

M Lu, X Yan, SS Azadeh, P Wang - International Journal of Transportation …, 2024 - Elsevier
The volume of instant delivery has witnessed a significant growth in recent years. Given the
involvement of numerous heterogeneous stakeholders, instant delivery operations are …

Routing of heterogeneous fleets for flash deliveries via vehicle group assignment

M Kronmueller, A Fielbaum… - 2022 IEEE 25th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel approach to route heterogeneous fleets for flash delivery
operations. Flash deliveries offer to serve customers' wishes in minutes. We investigate a …

Minimum Energy Utilization Strategy for Fleet of Autonomous Robots in Urban Waste Management

VB Justo, A Gupta, TF Umland, D Göhlich - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Many service robots have to operate in a variety of different Service Event Areas (SEAs). In
the case of the waste collection robot MARBLE (Mobile Autonomous Robot for Litter …

Autonomous Delivery Robots: A Literature Review

M Hossain - Available at SSRN 4109858, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Autonomous delivery robots (ADRs) are a recent advent in delivery services. While studies
on the technical aspects of ADRs are growing rapidly, studies of ADRs from the business …

Principles and design scenarios for sustainable urban food logistics

C Tochtrop, MW Bickel, L Hennes, M Speck… - … in Sustainable Cities, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Food and nutrition systems are linked to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which
makes their transition toward social-ecological behavior patterns crucial for an overarching …

Pooled grocery delivery with tight deadlines from multiple depots

M Kronmueller, A Fielbaum, J Alonso-Mora - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study routing for on-demand last-mile logistics with two crucial novel features: i) Multiple
depots, optimizing where to pick-up every order, ii) Allowing vehicles to perform depot …

Fleet Sizing for the Flash Delivery Problem from Multiple Depots a Case Study in Amsterdam

M Kronmueller, A Fielbaum, J Alonso-Mora - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present a novel approach for fleet sizing in the context of flash delivery, a
time-sensitive delivery service that requires the fulfilment of customer requests in minutes …