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Optimizing Last-Mile Deliveries: Addressing Customer Absence Through Genetic Algorithm

Technologies
Last-mile delivery logistics face significant challenges, particularly regarding customer absences during scheduled delivery times. This issue not only frustrates customers but also imposes substantial economic costs on delivery companies, estimated at ...
Javier Sánchez-Soriano, Guillermo Verdín-Urgal, Natalia Gordo-Herrera   +2 more
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Photoactive Tweezers

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A photoactive tweezers system based on photoactive colloids is developed and systematically investigated in this study. Through experimental and theoretical methods, we demonstrate that the photoredox reaction catalyzed by a dye‐sensitized TiO2 particle generates a strong positive phototaxis, enabling self‐entrapment in the beam center.
Jingyuan Chen, Qingxin Guo, Shiwei Zhang, Donghao Cui, Changjin Wu, Pei Xu, Wei Wang, Kai Lou, Binglin Zeng, Jinyao Tang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the last mile: logistical urbanism and the transformation of labour

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2019
In recent years, the last mile of delivery has become a crucial focus of logistical operations in urban contexts due to the rise of online shopping and the spread of platforms including Amazon to Foodora, Deliveroo and others ...
Moritz Altenried
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Engineering the Assembly Freedom of Donor–Acceptor Type Self‐Assembled Monolayers Toward Efficient and Stable Flexible Perovskite Photovoltaics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Assembly freedom engineering breaks the vertical alignment constraint of donor–acceptor self‐assembled monolayers, tuning their assembly freedom to achieve quasi‐random molecular orientation. This strategy simultaneously boosts interfacial charge transport and mechanical robustness, enabling high‐efficiency and mechanically stable flexible perovskite ...
Biao Zhou, Guosen Zhang, Hao Wang, Juntao Zhao, Ruijia Zhang, Hong Zhang, Mingwei An, Yue Wang, Yang Wang, Wallace C. H. Choy   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taxonomy of key practices for a sustainable Last-Mile logistics network in E-Retail: A comprehensive literature review

Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain
Objective: The growth of e-commerce has transformed last-mile logistics, with direct-to-consumer deliveries and frequent delivery failures. This has exacerbated pollution and congestion issues, negatively impacting urban life.
María Alejandra Maldonado Bonilla, Marina Bouzon, Claudia Cecilia Peña-Montoya   +2 more
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FACTORS AFFECTING THE SATISFACTION OF CUSTOMERS BUYING FOOD WITH LAST-MILE DELIVERY SERVICE ON E-COMMERCE PLATFORM IN VIETNAM [FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI KEPUASAN PELANGGAN YANG MEMBELI MAKANAN DENGAN LAYANAN PENGIRIMAN LAST-MILE PADA PLATFORM E-COMMERCE DI VIETNAM]

DeReMa (Development Research of Management): Jurnal Manajemen, 2023
The study aims to explore specific factors that affecting the satisfaction of customers buying food with last- mile delivery service on e-commerce platform in Vietnam.
Nhung Thi Hong Le, Phuong Mai Le, Huyen Thi Nguyen   +2 more
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Adsorption‐Engineered Hydrocarbon Ionomers for Durable Proton‐Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Hydrocarbon ionomers suffer from oxidation‐driven interfacial degradation in PEM fuel cell cathodes, leading to catalyst instability. Here, adsorption‐engineered poly(fluorene) ionomers decouple interfacial anchoring from oxidative degradation, enabling strong catalyst–ionomer interactions while resisting electrochemical oxidation.
Heemin Park, Kate Chen, Su Min Ahn, Hengquan Guo, Cy Fujimoto, Jong‐Ho Choi, Lynda Amichi, Danah Kim, Seung Geol Lee, Xiaojing Wang, Jacob S. Spendelow, Sun Young Kang, Panagiotis Bexis, Eun Joo S. Park, Yu Seung Kim   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of logistics measures of CEP service providers for the last-mile delivery in small- and medium-sized cities: A case study for the Aachen city region

European Transport Research Review
The e-commerce sector’s rapid expansion has led to an increase in delivery activities both within and across cities, fuelling the growth of the courier, express, and parcel (CEP) services.
Abdulrahmon Ghazal, Santhanakrishnan Narayanan, Ibraheem Oluwatosin Adeniran, Carina Kehrt, Constantinos Antoniou   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Causal‐Guided Ultra‐Long‐Term Time Series Forecasting Via Anticipated Covariates

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Often treated as unknown, information from the future remains underutilized.We demonstrate that in a coupled dynamical system, providing the future state of the effect enables accurate forecasting of the cause for a long timesteps. A time series forecasting paradigm that introduces anticipated covariates to represent such known future states is ...
Jintong Zhao, Yufei Liu, Ruixi Huang, Zhongxue Gan, Siyang Leng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Districting in last‐mile delivery with stochastic customers

International Transactions in Operational Research
Abstract Due to the peculiarities of city streets, last‐mile logistics is typically organized using territory‐based routing approaches, which divide the city into a set of districts and assign drivers to deliver in one or more of them.
Bruni, Maria Elena, Fadda, Edoardo, Fedorov, Stanislav, Perboli, Guido   +3 more
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