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Robotic System for Post Office Package Handling
Applied Sciences, 2023 Parcel sorting is becoming a significant challenge for delivery distribution centers and is mostly automated by using high-throughput sorting machinery, but manual work is still used to feed these machines by placing the parcels on the conveyor belt.
Oskars Vismanis +4 more
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The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows, Partial Recharges, and Parcel Lockers
Applied Sciences, 2023 This paper presents an extension of the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Partial Recharges (EVRPTW-PR), which incorporates the use of parcel lockers as a delivery method (i.e., self-pickup method).
Vincent F. Yu +2 more
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Parcel delivery by vehicle and drone
Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2019 We investigate a single-vehicle parcel delivery problem in which customers may be served either by the vehicle or by a portable companion drone launched from the vehicle.
Amro M. El-Adle +2 more
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Strategy for the Siting of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations for Parcel Delivery Service Providers
Energies, 2023 The development of urban logistics is closely related to the inhabitants of specific areas. People are changing their shopping habits, hence the growing share of online shopping. The consequence of the foregoing is increased demand for parcel delivery to
Marcin Jacek Kłos, Grzegorz Sierpiński
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Optimal Battery Sizing for Electric Truck Delivery
Energies, 2020 Finding the cost-optimal battery size in the context of parcel delivery with Electric Vehicles (EVs) requires solving a tradeoff between using the largest possible battery (so as to maximize the number of deliveries over a given time) and the relative ...
Donkyu Baek +4 more
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Efficient Parcel Delivery by Predicting Customers’ Locations*
Decision Sciences, 2019 ABSTRACTAn important aspect of the growing e‐commerce sector involves the delivery of tangible goods to the end customer, the so‐called last mile. This final stage of the logistics chain remains highly inefficient due to the problem of failed deliveries. To address this problem, delivery service providers can apply data science to determine the optimal,
Stiene Praet, David Martens
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Promet (Zagreb), 2021 The present review paper provides a systematic insight into the studies published so far when it comes to the research on the cost and performance optimisation in the parcel delivery phase. Globalisation, as well as the new trends, such as selling online,
Ermin Muharemović +3 more
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An Adaptation of IoT to Improve Parcel Delivery System [PDF]
Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, 2019 Recently, IoT technology has been applied in various field. One of the possible fields of an application is logistics system. In current system, a delivery must go through the designated logistics hub, which doesn’t provide shortest distance. Such system costs time and inefficient expenses.
Ha Yoon Song, Hyo Chang Han
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Logistics, 2021 The rapid growth in online shopping and associated parcel deliveries prompts investigation of the factors that contribute to parcel delivery demand. In this study, we evaluated the influence of locational and household characteristics on e-commerce home ...
Cheng Cheng +4 more
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Spatial Pattern and Influencing Factor Analysis of Parcel Lockers in London [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesWhen carriers deliver goods to customers, last-mile delivery is one of the supply chain’s most costly and environmentally damaging components [1].
Kang Xinwei
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