Logistic service providers increasingly focus on two-echelon distribution systems to efficiently manage thousands of deliveries in urban environments. Effectively operating such requires designing cost-efficient delivery networks while addressing the challenges increasing e-commerce demands. In this context, we a location routing problem with mobile depots and direct shipment, where decisions involve locating micro-depots, first second-level routes. Our model also incorporates flexibility...

Electric vehicles are a central component of future mobility systems as they promise to reduce local noxious and fine dust emissions, well CO 2 if fed by clean energy sources. However, the adoption electric so far fell short expectations despite significant governmental incentives. One reason for this slow is drivers’ perceived range anxiety, especially individually owned vehicles. Here, bad user experiences (e.g., conventional cars blocking charging stations or inconsistent real-time...

With the advent of self-driving cars, experts envision autonomous mobility-on-demand services in near future to cope with overloaded transportation systems cities worldwide. Efficient operations are imperative unlock such a system's maximum improvement potential. Existing approaches either consider narrow planning horizon or ignore essential characteristics underlying problem. In this paper, we develop an algorithmic framework that allows study very large-scale pickup and delivery routing...

In autonomous mobility-on-demand systems, effectively managing vehicle flows to mitigate induced congestion and ensure efficient operations is imperative for system performance positive customer experience. Against this background, we study the potential of staggered routing, i.e., purposely delaying trip departures from a perspective, in order reduce while still meeting time windows. We formalize underlying planning problem show how efficiently model it as mixed integer linear program....

Nowadays, logistics service providers (LSPs) increasingly consider using a crowdsourced workforce on the last mile to fulfill customers’ expectations regarding same-day or on-demand delivery at reduced costs. The workforce’s availability is, however, uncertain. Therefore, LSPs often hire additional fixed employees perform deliveries when of drivers is low. In this context, reliability versus flexibility trade-off which face over longer period, for example, year, remains unstudied. Against...

Nowadays, logistics service providers (LSPs) increasingly consider using a crowdsourced workforce on the last mile to fulfill customers' expectations regarding same-day or on-demand delivery at reduced costs. The workforce's availability is, however, uncertain. Therefore, LSPs often hire additional fixed employees perform deliveries when of drivers is low. In this context, reliability versus flexibility trade-off which face over longer period, e.g., year, remains unstudied. Against...

Electric vehicles are a central component of future mobility systems as they promise to reduce local noxious and fine dust emissions CO2 emissions, if fed by clean energy sources. However, the adoption electric so far fell short expectations despite significant governmental incentives. One reason for this slow is drivers' perceived range anxiety, especially individually owned vehicles. Here, bad user-experiences, e.g., conventional cars blocking charging stations or inconsistent real-time...