ABSTRACT E-commerce growth as experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic was only
expected to occur by 2025–2030. Online shopping increased in intensity and diversity. At …

In this paper, we address a districting problem motivated by a real-world case study to
partition residential areas of a region for a healthcare system operation under interval …

Last-mile delivery has several negative environmental impacts in urban areas because of its
high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, as well as traffic congestion …

E-commerce established the consumer as a freight actor. This new reality in the e-commerce
supply chain holds economic, social, and environmental opportunities. First, logistics service …

Community logistics (CL) is a recently proposed delivery strategy designed to deal with e-
commerce last-mile delivery scheduling by dynamically assigning vehicles to designated …

This study introduces the Territory Design for the Multi-Period Vehicle Routing Problem with
Time Windows (TD-MPVRPTW) problem, motivated by a real-world application at a food …

The efficient last-mile delivery of goods involves complex challenges in optimizing driver
sectors and routes. This problem tends to be large-scale and involves several criteria to …

Home package delivery by drones as an alternative or complement to traditional delivery by
trucks is attracting considerable attention from the commercial sector as well as academia …

This paper deals with the Delivery Territory Design Problem (DTDP), a districting problem
that often occurs in delivery operations. The goal of the problem is to construct clusters of …

Express pickup and delivery systems play crucial roles in contemporary urban areas.
Couriers within these systems retrieve packages from designated Areas of Interest (AOI) that …