The operational design and planning of drone-based logistics models is a rapidly growing
area of scientific research. In this paper, we present a structured, comprehensive, and …

The practical relevance and challenging nature of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) have
motivated the Operations Research community to consider different practical requirements …

Unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, have gained wide attention in
recent years due to their potential of revolutionizing logistics and transportation. In this …

The flying sidekick traveling salesman problem (FS-TSP) is a parcel delivery problem arising
in the last-mile logistics, where the distribution plan of a driver-operated truck assisted by a …

Reinforcement learning has recently shown promise in learning quality solutions in many
combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, the attention-based encoder-decoder …

The use of drones in urban logistics is gaining more and more interest. In this paper we
consider the flying sidekick traveling salesman problem, where some customers require a …

In this paper, we conduct a comparative analysis of three synchronized truck-and-drone
delivery models for package delivery. In these models, drones are launched from the truck to …

Owing to the continued development of e-commerce, logisticians now have an outstanding
obligation to tackle last-mile delivery challenges. A number of logistics providers have …

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) has been an important research topic in operations
research for decades. The major applications of the VRP arise in transportation, especially …

This paper presents three enhanced formulations for the flying sidekick traveling salesman
problem, where a truck and a drone cooperate to deliver parcels to customers minimizing …