A conceptual digital twin framework for city logistics

Urban logistics is one of the key elements of urban mobility planning. The use of real-time information systems in logistics operations generates an enormous amount of data, nowadays used mainly for the purpose of monitoring and control of large flows of goods. At the same time, urban planners, business stakeholders, and city administrators...

Fleet Design for Last-Mile OnDemand Logistics

The simultaneous rapidly increasing demand for home delivery of goods and on-demand expectancy of customers over the past years leaves a tough challenge for the logistical branch. They have to keep up with this increasing demand and simultaneously they are obliged to satisfy consumer service level demands to preserve their customers. On the...

Anticipatory Route Optimization in On-demand Same-day Grocery Delivery

The recent decade has seen exponential growth in technology and information processing. This has enabled a paradigm shift in several logistical operations such as the introduction of on-demand same-day delivery of groceries.<br/><br/>One of the most relevant challenges in dynamic same-day pickup &amp; delivery systems is related to uncertainty...