Understanding customers' adoption of express delivery service for last-mile delivery in the UK

The Future of Last - Mile Delivery

Collaborative Optimization of Last Mile Networks for Courier, Express and Parcel Delivery Services

There is a great deal of pressure to improve delivery effectiveness, especially for the sector of courier, express and parcel services (CEP) networks caused by rising energy costs and fierce competition among carriers. Additionally, society demands higher standards of ecological sustainability management in the transportation business sector (Leonardi and Baumgartner 2004). The fact that the th...

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...