Last-Mile Logistics; Meal Delivery; Machine Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Value Function Approximation; Metaheuristics.

Data-Driven Optimization for Meal Delivery: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Order-Courier Assignment and Routing at Meituan

  • Ramon Auad
  • Felipe Lagos
  • Tomas Lagos
    • Categories Dynamic Programming, Meta Heuristics, Transportation Tags

    The rapid growth of online meal delivery has introduced complex logistical challenges, where platforms must dynamically assign orders to couriers while accounting for demand uncertainty, courier autonomy, and service efficiency. Traditional dispatching methods, often focused on short-term cost minimization, fail to capture the long-term implications of assignment decisions on system-wide performance. This paper presents a … Read more