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A Review of Literature on Vehicle Routing Problems of Last-Mile Delivery in Urban Areas

Applied Sciences, 2023
Logistics has long been important in an industrial society. Compared with the traditional structure of distribution, which requires freight to be delivered mostly to warehouses or retail stores, customers now often prefer packages to be delivered to ...
Reza Jazemi, Ensieh Alidadiani, Kwangseog Ahn, Jaejin Jang   +3 more
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Entrepreneurship in Last-mile Delivery [PDF]

Effektivitet, 2020
The continued strong growth in e-commerce has prompted large delivery companies such as DHL or PostNord to adapt their last-mile delivery processes. These logistics providers usually have large infrastructures such as warehouses and terminals in place that cater more to the efficient handling of packages.
Do Trung, Kien, Norell, Viggo, Gammelgaard, Britta   +2 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Moving towards “mobile warehouse”: Last-mile logistics during COVID-19 and beyond

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021
Supply chains in general and last-mile logistics in particular, have been disrupted due to COVID-19. Though several innovative last-mile logistics solutions have been proposed in the past, they possess certain limitations, especially during COVID-19 ...
S. Srivatsa Srinivas, Rahul R. Marathe
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Last-Mile Parcel Delivery: A State-of-the-Art Review

Drones
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being increasingly implemented in parcel delivery applications. The scientific progress in this field is progressing exponentially.
Almodather Mohamed, Moataz Mohamed
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Rural E-Customers’ Preferences for Last Mile Delivery and Products Purchased via the Internet before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural e-customers’ preferences in terms of last mile delivery and products purchased via the Internet.
Małgorzata Markowska, Jakub Marcinkowski, Maja Kiba-Janiak, Danuta Strahl   +3 more
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Last-mile logistics with alternative delivery locations: A systematic literature review

Results in Engineering
Last-mile logistics plays a crucial role in modern supply chains, particularly in the retail industry. Despite its vital role in ensuring timely delivery to end-users, it is often considered the most expensive and ineffective segment of the logistics ...
Nima Pourmohammadreza, Mohammad Reza Akbari Jokar, Tom Van Woensel   +2 more
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Design of sustainable urban electronic grocery distribution network

Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2021
To meet the expectation of multi-modal distributions from customers for last-mile delivery, a sustainable two-echelon E-Grocery delivery system is studied, which is motivated by the adaption of autonomous delivery robot (ADRs), parcel lockers in E ...
Dan Liu, Zhenghong Deng, Weibin Zhang, Yinhai Wang, Evangelos I. Kaisar   +4 more
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A 3D‐Printed Vascular‐Like Perfusion Tumor‐on‐a‐Chip Recapitulates High‐Grade Breast Cancer With in Vivo‐Relevant Drug Resistance

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A high‐resolution 3D‐printed tumor‐on‐a‐chip platform sustains breast cancer tissues at in vivo–like cell densities through vascular‐like perfusion. This engineered system recapitulates grade‐dependent molecular features and exhibits drug‐resistance profiles that uniquely align with clinically relevant Cmax values.
Geonhui Lee, Bingjie Sun, Nicholas X. Fang, Chunguang Xia   +3 more
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Optoelectronic Nanofluidic Neural Networks for Ionic Computing

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
An ion‐based optoelectronic nanofluidic memristor enables neuromorphic computing in aqueous environments. With tunable ionic memory and multimodal synaptic plasticity, it realizes densely connected ionic neural networks capable of image classification, motion prediction, logic computation, and real‐time in‐sensor computing, advancing fully connected ...
Yaxin Huang, Zhiyuan Du, Changjin Wu, Binglin Zeng, Yingnan Cao, Mingliang Li, Liren Zhang, Qingxin Guo, Chao Huang, Can Li, Jinyao Tang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source