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Robot-Based Last-Mile Deliveries With Pedestrian Zones

Frontiers in Future Transportation, 2022
Since delivery robots share sidewalks with pedestrians, it may be beneficial to choose paths for them that avoid zones with high pedestrian density. In this paper, we investigate a robot-based last-mile delivery problem considering path flexibility given
Iurii Bakach, Ann Melissa Campbell, Jan Fabian Ehmke   +2 more
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Implementation barriers, facilitators, and fidelity of a mobile money-based savings tool for pregnant women in the Analamanga region of Madagascar: an ex-post process evaluation

Implementation Science Communications
Background Mobile payment services could improve access to obstetric care by easing saving, raising revenue, and pooling resources. Between 2019 and 2022, a mobile money-based savings tool for obstetric care was implemented in the Analamanga region of ...
Lisa Bogler, Sebastian Vollmer, Zavaniarivo Rampanjato, Harizaka Emmanuel Andriamasy, Bítia Vieira, Louis Noël Schäfer, Elsa Rajemison, Onja Gabrielle Ravololohanitra, Andriamampianina Ralisimalala, Till Bärnighausen, Samuel Knauss, Julius Valentin Emmrich   +11 more
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An Approach of Optimisation in Last Mile Delivery

, 2023
This research has been supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation through project no. 451-03-47/2023-01/200156 “Innovative scientific and artistic research from the FTS (activity) domain”
Dragan Simic, José Luís Calvo-Rolle, José R. Villar 0001, Vladimir Ilin, Svetislav D. Simic, Svetlana Simic   +5 more
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Essential aid made fully visible: understanding the proCHW financing landscape analysing accessible donor data sources

BMJ Global Health
Introduction Community health workers (CHWs) play a critical role in extending healthcare services to underserved populations, especially in low-income and middle-income countries.
James O’Donovan, Daniel Palazuelos, Madeleine Ballard, Mallika Raghavan, Stephanie Rapp, Ash Rogers, Carla López Castañeda, Benedicte Razafinjato, Matthew French, Cleo Baskin, Sarah Lindsay, Carey Carpenter Westgate, Laura Shellaby, Rachel Hofmann, Pauline Picho Keronyai, Niloofar Ganjian, Sonia Tiedt, Diana Nambatya Nsubuga, Jude Aidam   +18 more
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A Districting Application with a Quality of Service Objective

Mathematics, 2021
E-commerce sales have led to a considerable increase in the demand for last-mile delivery companies, revealing several problems in their logistics processes. Among these problems, are not meeting delivery deadlines.
Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda, Jordi Pereira
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Changing power narratives: an exemplar case study on the professionalisation of community health workers in Liberia

BMJ Global Health
Despite their central role in achieving health equity and Universal Health Coverage, only a minority of community health workers (CHWs) is formally recognised as health workforce and receives a salary.
Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen, Marion Subah, Anne Neumann   +2 more
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What compels enrollment in a mobile maternal health wallet? A mixed-methods doer/non-doer analysis in Analamanga, Madagascar

BMC Health Services Research
Background Care-seeking during antenatal and intrapartum periods has remained persistently low in Madagascar, largely due to financial barriers. To bolster both care-seeking and health financing, a Mobile Maternal Health Wallet (MMHW) was developed and ...
Louis Noël Schäfer, Zavaniarivo Rampanjato, Lisa Bogler, Elsa Rajemison, Samuel Knauss, Julius Valentin Emmrich, Mirana Larissa Randriamiarisoa, Harizaka Emmanuel Andriamasy, Louisa Marie Truss, Bítia Vieira, Till Bärnighausen, Mark Donald C. Reñosa, Shannon A. McMahon   +12 more
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The Last Mile

, 2018
Governments now have access to a large and growing range of financing instruments for rapidlymobilizing funds in the aftermath of a disaster. Instruments like reserve funds, contingent linesof credit, and insurance programs are critical for financing relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts, and they have a demonstrated impact on the ability of ...
Hallegatte, Stephane, Rentschler, Jun
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“The bus is accessible, but how do you get to the bus”: First and last mile experiences of disabled transit riders

Journal of Public Transportation
To use public transit, riders must complete first and last mile trip segments. However, transportation planning measures of access to opportunity often assume that transit riders can complete first and last mile trips with ease. This paper contributes to
Kaylyn Levine
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City logistics: Towards a blockchain decision framework for collaborative parcel deliveries in micro-hubs

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2020
The growth in e-commerce has led to increased pressure within the courier, express and parcel (CEP) sector to tackle the ‘last-mile’ issue and come up with solutions that not only satisfy the customers, but also other stakeholders such as city councils ...
Marko Hribernik, Kathrin Zero, Sebastian Kummer, David M. Herold   +3 more
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