Online sales have steadily increased in recent years. Unlike the traditional retail shopping model, e-commerce must deliver custom orders to highly dispersed locations. Consequently, negative effects been observed large urban and densely populated areas, such as congestion pollution. Pick-up points (PPs) are fast-growing solutions that provide parcel delivery picking services at diverse locatio...

Increased E-commerce and demand for contactless delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic have fueled interest in robotic package delivery. We evaluate life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions automated suburban ground systems consisting of a vehicle (last-mile) robot (final-50-feet). Small large cargo vans (125 350 cubic feet; V125 V350) with an internal combustion engine (ICEV) battery electric ...

Introduction: In order to assist with mitigation planning for the Kittitas Valley Wind Power Project, the following discussion of habitat conditions within the portion of land known as the Schober Parcel has been prepared. This discussion concerns itself only with that part of the parcel lying north of the canal road, and takes in parts of Sections 22 and 27, Township 19N, Range 17E, Willamette...

The growth of e-commerce has created increasing complexity in logistics services. To remain competitive, and companies are exploring new modes as supplements to traditional home delivery, one which is the self-service parcel locker. This paper studies a locker location problem where company plans introduce service by locating facilities attract customers. objective maximize profit, accounting f...

Item parceling remains widely used under conditions that can lead to parcel-allocation variability in results. Hence, researchers may be interested in quantifying and accounting for parcel-allocation variability within sample. To do so in practice, three key issues need to be addressed. First, how can we combine sources of uncertainty arising from sampling variability and parcel-allocation vari...

In practice, there are several applications in which logistics service providers determine the time windows at customers, for example, parcel delivery, retail, and repair services. These companies face uncertain travel times that have to be taken into account when determining routes prior departure. The objective of proposed robust vehicle routing problem with window assignments (RVRP-TWA) is s...