The application of drone technology promises to revolutionize the transportation industry.
Particularly, the combination of drones with ground vehicles has tremendous advantages for …

The ever-increasing demand for urban delivery services significantly exacerbates the traffic
conditions on our already overly congested urban streets. The problem is even worsened by …

There are emerging transportation problems known as the Traveling Salesman Problem
with Drone (TSPD) and the Flying Sidekick Traveling Salesman Problem (FSTSP) that …

We consider a new combined truck–drone routing problem with time windows in the context
of last-mile logistics. A fleet of trucks, each equipped with an identical drone, is scheduled to …

Abstract The Vehicle Routing Problem with Release Dates and Drone Resupply consists of
routing a fleet of trucks to deliver orders that arrive at a depot over time. During the delivery …

In this paper, we introduce the Special Issue on Machine Learning Methods and
Applications in Large-Scale Route Planning Problems, which draws its inspiration from the …

Drone participation in truck delivery is a potential booster for the last-mile logistics system,
which has been an emerging hot research field. Among that, how to arrange a fleet of …

Within the context of burgeoning multimodal transportation systems, the emerging
integration of drones and trucks is shaping the landscape of last-mile delivery. In this service …

This article investigates the problem of minimizing the total travel distance in locker-based
drone delivery, where the roofs of lockers are reused as parking platforms for drones. It is a …

This paper studies the transportation of emergency supplies for mountain wildfire
suppression by trucks, drones, and motorcycles. The primary objective is to minimize the …