Optimizing Spatial On-street Parking Provision for Logistic Vehicles
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Dynamic and Robust Allocation of On-Street Parking for Passenger and Delivery Vehicles
Problem definition: Curb space has long been a scarce public resource in automobilized cities, serving competing uses for passenger parking and commercial activities. The rapid growth of e-commerce and home deliveries, combined with increasing urban density, has further intensified pressure on this already constrained resource, making effective curbspace management a critical policy challenge. Yet, in … Read more
Consolidation in Crowdshipping with Scheduled Transfer Lines: A Surrogate-Based Network Design Framework
Abstract: Crowdshipping has gained attention as an emerging delivery model thanks to advantages such as flexibility and an asset-light structure. Yet, it chronically suffers from a lackof mechanisms to create and exploit consolidation opportunities, limiting its efficiency and scalability. This work contributes to the literature in two ways: first, by introducing a novel consolidation concept … Read more
Hub Network Design Problem with Capacity, Congestion and Stochastic Demand Considerations
We introduce the hub network design problem with congestion, capacity, and stochastic demand considerations (HNDC), which generalizes the classical hub location problem in several directions. In particular, we extend state-of-the-art by integrating capacity acquisition decision and congestion cost effect into the problem and allowing dynamic routing for origin-destination pairs. Connecting strategic and operational level decisions, … Read more
A Learning Based Algorithm for Drone Routing
We introduce a learning based algorithm to solve the drone routing problem with recharging stops that arises in many applications such as precision agriculture, search and rescue and military surveillance. The heuristic algorithm, namely Learn and Fly (L\&F), learns from the features of high quality solutions to optimize recharging visits, starting from a given Hamiltonian … Read more
Hub Location and Route Dimensioning: Strategic and Tactical Intermodal Transportation Hub Network Design
We propose a novel hub location model that jointly eliminates the traditional assumptions on the structure of the network and on the discount due to economies of scale in an effort to better reflect real-world logistics and transportation systems. Our model extends the hub literature in various facets: instead of connecting non-hub nodes directly to … Read more
Pricing for Delivery Time Flexibility
We study a variant of the multi-period vehicle routing problem, in which a service provider offers a discount to customer in exchange for delivery flexibility. We establish theoretical properties and empirical insights regarding the intricate and complex relation between the benefit from additional delivery flexibility, the discounts offered to customers to gain additional delivery flexibility, … Read more
Optimizing Package Express Operations in China
We explore optimization models to support the planning and operations functions at package express carriers in China. The models simultaneously consider ground and air transportation, company-owned and purchased capacity, multiple service products, and shipments becoming available throughout the day. An extensive computational study using real-life data shows the efficacy of the models, provides insights into … Read more
Decomposition Branching for Mixed Integer Programming
We introduce a novel and powerful approach for solving certain classes of mixed integer programs (MIPs): decomposition branching. Two seminal and widely used techniques for solving MIPs, branch-and-bound and decomposition, form its foundation. Computational experiments with instances of a weighted set covering problem and a regionalized p-median facility location problem with assignment range constraints demonstrate … Read more
Provably High-Quality Solutions for the Meal Delivery Routing Problem
Online restaurant aggregators with integrated meal delivery networks have become more common and more popular in the past few years. Meal delivery is arguably the ultimate challenge in last mile logistics: a typical order is expected to be delivered within an hour (much less if possible), and within minutes of the food becoming ready. We … Read more