Parcel delivery is a complex logistic service, as it serves many small or medium-sized customers who may send or receive parcels. Modeling such delivery system needs to integrate two different research areas of hub location and vehicle routing. As it totally depends on the network and the linkage of the nodes, in this paper, some door-to-door service providers are taken into account to provide ...

parcel delivery is a complex logistic service, as it serves many small or medium-sized customers who may send or receive parcels. modeling such delivery system needs to integrate two different research areas of hub location and vehicle routing. as it totally depends on the network and the linkage of the nodes, in this paper, some door-to-door service providers are taken into account to provide ...

THE US small parcel delivery industry typically transports packages small enough to be handled by one individual without the need for special equipment The landscape for this industry has changed significantly over the past decade. With parcel delivery companies branching out from their niche business models into adjacent services, such as UPS into the express air shipment and FedEx into ground...

Collaborative routing aided by drones in last-mile delivery (LMD) has been an extensively studied topic recent years. In this article, a new optimization problem for collaborative with truck and fleet of LMD is introduced. The proposes strategy to coordinate serve given set customers. plan based on identifying the locations where can park fly A procedure locate these parking lots conveniently g...

This paper considers the parcel hub scheduling problem (PHSP) with unequal batch size inbound trailers, which is a combinatorial optimization problem commonly found in a parcel consolidation terminal in the parcel delivery industry (PDI). The problem consists of processing a large number of inbound trailers at a much smaller number of unload docks. The parcels in the inbound trailers must be un...

The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the entire world has significantly affected shopping behavior. This study tried to survey delivery services provided by DHL which is a world-leading logistics company that provides from domestic and international parcel delivery. spiked demand for e-commerce warehouse space due abnormality within global supply chain ensures non-interruption of production. paper...