Combining trucks and drones in package delivery provides a promising venue for a future
logistics system that is more efficient and sustainable than the existing one. However, how to …

The work aims to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions generated during
the urban logistics transportation and distribution and make the actual path planning flexible …

Real-life challenges require proactive measures. Good transportation services and greener
alternatives demand steadfast research in the area. Here, an attempt has been made to …

With the rapid development of Online to Offline (O2O) business, millions of transactions are
performed on the popular online food ordering platforms each day. Efficient dispatching of …

First-mile logistics tackles the movement of products from retailers to a warehouse or
distribution centre. This first step towards the end customer has been pushed by large e …

The make-to-stock strategy can improve the operational efficiency of urban freight delivery,
especially in a dynamic transportation system with idle storage resources. This study …

Traffic congestion problems are very common in large municipalities, especially in areas
with karst features. Traffic jams happen in many key traffic nodes (such as the bridges across …

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is one of the challenging problems in optimization and
can be described as combinatorial optimization and NP-hard problem. Researchers have …

The demand for daily food purchases has increased dramatically, especially during the
Covid-19 pandemic. This requires suppliers to face a huge and complex problem of …

One of the most important challenges for a company is to manage its supply chain efficiently.
One way to do this is to control and minimize its various logistics costs together to achieve …