crowd logistics

Provably High-Quality Solutions for the Meal Delivery Routing Problem

  • Martin Savelsbergh
  • Barış Yıldız
    • Categories Integer Programming, Optimization of Systems modeled by PDEs, Transportation Tags , , , , ,

    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

    Crowd-based City Logistics

  • Afonso Sampaio
  • Martin Savelsbergh
  • Lucas Veelenturf
  • Tom Van Woensel
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Production and Logistics, Transportation Tags , , , , ,

    Cities are drivers of economic development, providing infrastructure to support countless activities and services. Today, the world’s 750 biggest cities account for more than 57% of the global GDP and this number is expected to increase to 61% by 2030. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, or urban areas, and this … Read more