A truck platoon is a set of virtually linked trucks that drive closely behind one another using
automated driving technology. Benefits of truck platooning include cost savings, reduced …

Dynamic ride-share systems aim to bring together travelers with similar itineraries and time
schedules on short-notice. These systems may provide significant societal and …

Construction is one of the least-digitized industries in the economy. To rein in the rising costs
of building activities, digital transformation is one of the pillars that industry leaders rely on. A …

Over the past decade, electric vehicles (EVs) have been considered in a growing number of
models and methods for vehicle routing problems (VRPs). This study presents a …

Recently, there is an emerging trend to apply deep reinforcement learning to solve the
vehicle routing problem (VRP), where a learnt policy governs the selection of next node for …

As technology continues to improve people's quality of life, there is a large, unfulfilled market
worldwide for on-demand meal delivery services. The competitive edge of the business is …

Previous work on assigning tasks to robots has proposed extensive categorizations of
allocation of tasks with and without constraints. The main contribution of this paper is a …

In this paper, we analyze the route efficiency trade-offs that emerge from combining first-mile
pickup and last-mile delivery operations in an urban distribution system. We build on the …

This paper is the first part of a comprehensive survey on pickup and delivery problems.
Basically, two problem classes can be distinguished. The first class, discussed in this paper …

This paper addresses a vehicle scheduling problem encountered in home health care
logistics. It concerns the delivery of drugs and medical devices from the home care …