Deployment of Charging Stations for Drone Delivery Assisted by Public Transportation Vehicles

To enable the drone delivery service in a remote area, this paper considers approach of deploying charging stations and collaborating with public transportation vehicles. From warehouse which is far from customer, takes some vehicles to reach position close area. When customer unreachable where leaves vehicle, swaps battery at station. The focus deployment stations. We propose new model characterize time for customers. formulate optimal problem minimize average customers, reflection satisfaction. then sub-optimal algorithm that relocates sequence, ensures any movement station leads decrease flight distance. comparison baseline method confirms proposed can more accurately estimate distance than commonly used model, relocate achieving lower