Measuring Disruptions in Last-Mile Delivery Operations

The Future of Last - Mile Delivery

Transshipment Networks for Last-Mile Delivery in Congested Urban Areas1

This paper introduces the concept of transshipment networks, a collection of strategically located transshipment platforms, for efficient and flexible last-mile delivery in congested urban areas. By implementing transshipment platforms, logistics operators can select the locations, light-freight vehicle types and operating schedules that best fit specific distribution strategies, and, simultane...

Minimizing waiting time in last mile delivery for smart city

Customers consider a reliable and on-time last mile delivery in Omni-channel business as important as price and good’s quality. We focus on minimizing the waiting time for customers and carriers in last mile delivery. We model the problem as an optimization problem and develop Genetic Algorithm to solve it.

Stochastic last-mile delivery problems with time constraints

When a package is shipped, the customer often requires the delivery to be made within a particular time window or by a deadline. However, meeting such time requirements is difficult, and delivery companies may not always know ahead of time which customers will need a delivery. In this thesis, we present models and solution approaches for two stochastic last-mile delivery problems in which custo...

Illuminating the Last Mile?

The next leap in the communications market may be the extension of optical technology to access networks. Advanced fibre optical access equipment has been developed in the last decade and today trial tests are on the way and insular deployment has begun. The access network, the last mile, has not encountered any major changes of technology for a century. However, current advancements in technol...