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Robot Routing Problem of Last-Mile Delivery in Indoor Environments
Applied Sciences, 2022 With the development of robot technology, trials adopting robots for last-mile delivery are continuing, and the final destination of last-mile delivery is further expanding into indoor environments.
Junsu Kim, Hosang Jung
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Energies, 2023 The goal of this article is to examine the advantages and disadvantages of the application of drones in last-mile delivery systems from a sustainability point of view regarding CO2 emissions and energy consumption.
Boglárka Eisinger Balassa +3 more
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LAST MILE LOGISTICS: IMPACT OF UNSTRUCTURED ADDRESSES ON DELIVERY TIMES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 The e-commerce industry has seen significant growth over the past few years. One significant issue that has sprung up as a result of this growth is unstructured addresses during last mile delivery.
M. Abdul Rahman +4 more
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Last mile delivery in Scotland [PDF]
, 2021 This research sets out to: develop a profile of last mile delivery in Scotland; estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from these deliveries; understand what activities are underway in other jurisdictions to reduce emissions; and collate details of ...
Worthy, Fergus
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A Viewpoint on the Challenges and Solutions for Driverless Last-Mile Delivery
Machines, 2022 The occurring growth in e-commerce comes along with an increasing number of first-time delivery failures due to the customer’s absence at the delivery location.
Vasiliki Balaska +6 more
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Customer satisfaction with last-mile delivery in Kenya: An online customer perspective
Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2023 Background: An effective and efficient last-mile delivery service plays a critical role towards the growth of global online retail sales. In Kenya, online customers have often been unwilling to shop online again, mainly because of delivery issues ...
Eric Mogire +2 more
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The Last-Mile Delivery of Heavy, Bulky, Oversized Products: Literature Review and Research Agenda
, 2023 Background: Last-mile delivery (LMD) is a challenging and costly supply chain process that involves direct customer interaction. In a recent study by the World Economic Forum, it was emphasized that last-mile logistics is an emerging research area.
Bahram Alidaee, Lutfu S. Sua, Haibo Wang
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Data-driven optimization for last-mile delivery
Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021 This paper considers how an online food delivery platform can improve last-mile delivery services’ performance using multi-source data. The delivery time is one critical but uncertain factor for online platforms that also regarded as the main challenges ...
Hongrui Chu +3 more
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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 +2 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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