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Optimal Routing Strategies for Last-Mile Delivery with a Fleet of a Single Truck and Multiple Heterogeneous Robots

Transportation Research Record
To resolve challenges arising from traditional truck-based delivery systems, the integration of autonomous robots into last-mile delivery operations has recently received attention as a promising solution.
Y. Yun, H. Na, S. Kweon
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Last-mile delivery in smart cities

Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Information and Communication Technology - SoICT '14, 2014
Logistics and transportation are two very aspects in smart city development. This talk is in 2 parts. First, I will discuss the challenges of urban logistics, more specifically in the context of last-mile delivery of freight into mega-cities like Singapore.
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Collaboration in the last-mile delivery

2023
Ως τελικό στάδιο της παράδοσης αναφέρεται η διαδικασία μεταφοράς των εμπορευμάτων από έναν κόμβο μεταφοράς στον τελικό προορισμό, όπου συνήθως είναι η κατοικία ή η επιχείρηση ενός πελάτη. Οι προκλήσεις που σχετίζονται με τη διαδικασία αυτή περιλαμβάνουν υψηλό κόστος, αναποτελεσματικότητα στην παράδοση των προϊόντων και περίπλοκες διαδικασίες ...
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Last-mile transport of fragmented deliveries: delivery preferences of nanostoreowners

2020
Last-mile deliveries to small, independent retailers, or nanostores, are characterized by small shipments. This is partly caused by storeowners who order with multiple suppliers at a high frequency. The purpose of this study is to identify the importance of the main delivery preferences of storeowners and how this affects last-mile deliveries.
Kin, B.D.W.   +3 more
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The Value of Pooling in Last-Mile Delivery

2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2022
Akhil Shetty   +3 more
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Integrating mobile parcel lockers into last-mile delivery networks: an operational design for home delivery, stationary, and mobile parcel lockers

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management
PurposeThe e-commerce boom presents new challenges for last-mile delivery (LMD), which may be mitigated by new delivery technologies. This paper evaluates the impact of mobile parcel lockers (MPL) on costs and CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissions in existing ...
Marcel Peppel, S. Spinler, M. Winkenbach
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Last‐Mile Delivery: A Process View, Framework, and Research Agenda

Journal of Business Logistics
The expansion of e‐commerce has increased scholarly interest in Business‐to‐Customer (B2C) last‐mile delivery (LMD). LMD occurs in a unique logistical context and presents many new, evolving challenges worthy of scholarly investigation.
Nicolò Masorgo   +2 more
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Last-Mile Delivery (LMD)

Last-mile delivery (LMD) is a challenging and complex logistics function with increasing importance attributable to factors such as e-commerce development, customer demands for faster delivery services, and urbanization. As a major delivery stage influencing customer satisfaction with deliveries, delivery time of products, and logistics costs taken as ...
Benson Ruzive   +4 more
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An Innovation in Last-Mile Delivery

2015
TA-Q-BIN functions in a way that is similar to the hub-and-spoke system commonly practiced in the airline industry and the logistics industry. While such ubiquitous network makes it convenient for customers to enjoy the service of TA-Q-BIN, it imposes great challenges on Yamato Transport to provide the efficient, cost-effective, and consistent service,
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DIGITIZATION OF THE LAST MILE OF DELIVERY

With the rapid development of technology Digitalization is becoming an integral part of various spheres of the economy, including logistics. Special attention is paid to optimizing the delivery process at the last mile, a stage that directly affects customer satisfaction and the overall efficiency of the supply chain.
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