Mobile home delivery parcel lockers

IF 8.3 1区工程技术 Q1 ECONOMICS

Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI:10.1016/j.tre.2024.103867

Rico Kötschau, Ninja Scherr, Christian Tilk, Jan Fabian Ehmke

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Abstract

The demand for last-mile parcel delivery services is expected to increase. Great efforts are therefore being made to develop new ideas for more efficient last-mile delivery. One of the more recent concepts are Mobile Parcel Lockers (MPL), which can be easily repositioned to meet the actual daily demand for deliveries. In this work, we introduce the Mobile Home Delivery Parcel Locker (MHDPL) problem. Therein, a single vehicle can provide both, MPL service and Attended Home Deliveries (AHD), the current industry standard. Hence, the MHDPL problem integrates two characteristics: the simultaneous delivery of many customers as with MPLs, and the delivery of particularly remote customers in a short time as with AHDs. We present a mathematical formulation and propose an Iterated Local Search (ILS) as a solution approach. Since our ILS works on a time-space network, we introduce new problem and network-specific operators. The performance of the ILS is evaluated and the efficiency of the new service is analyzed in terms of various instance and customer characteristics, comparing it to dedicated MPL and AHD services. Our computational analysis reveals that the combination of services has economic potential and satisfies customer preferences more effectively. According to our study, an average MHDPL vehicle can serve 21% more customers than a comparable AHD vehicle.

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移动房屋运送包裹柜

对最后一英里包裹递送服务的需求预计会增加。因此，人们正在努力开发新的理念，以提高最后一英里投递的效率。最近提出的一个概念是移动包裹柜（MPL），它可以很容易地重新定位，以满足每天实际的投递需求。在这项工作中，我们引入了移动家庭递送包裹柜（MHDPL）问题。在这个问题中，一辆车既可以提供 MPL 服务，也可以提供目前的行业标准--上门送货服务 (AHD)。因此，MHDPL 问题综合了两个特点：与 MPL 一样，可同时为许多客户送货；与 AHD 一样，可在短时间内为特别偏远的客户送货。我们给出了一个数学公式，并提出了一种迭代局部搜索（ILS）的求解方法。由于我们的 ILS 在时空网络上运行，因此我们引入了新的问题和网络专用算子。我们评估了 ILS 的性能，并根据各种实例和客户特征分析了新服务的效率，同时将其与专用 MPL 和 AHD 服务进行了比较。我们的计算分析表明，服务组合具有经济潜力，能更有效地满足客户的偏好。根据我们的研究，MHDPL 车辆平均可比同类 AHD 车辆多服务 21% 的客户。

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Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review 工程技术-工程：土木

CiteScore

16.20

自引率

16.00%

发文量

285

审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review is a reputable journal that publishes high-quality articles covering a wide range of topics in the field of logistics and transportation research. The journal welcomes submissions on various subjects, including transport economics, transport infrastructure and investment appraisal, evaluation of public policies related to transportation, empirical and analytical studies of logistics management practices and performance, logistics and operations models, and logistics and supply chain management. Part E aims to provide informative and well-researched articles that contribute to the understanding and advancement of the field. The content of the journal is complementary to other prestigious journals in transportation research, such as Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Part B: Methodological, Part C: Emerging Technologies, Part D: Transport and Environment, and Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. Together, these journals form a comprehensive and cohesive reference for current research in transportation science.