200. Integrated Delivery Management and Vehicle Routing for Parcel Lockers
Invited abstract in session WE-1: Delivery problems, stream Mobility, Transportation, and Traffic.
Wednesday, 16:30-18:00Room: Audimax
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Jim Schoppa
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| 2. | Robert Klein
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| Chair of Analytics & Optimization, University of Augsburg |
Abstract
In light of labor shortages, rising fuel costs, and thin profit margins, providers of last-mile delivery services face mounting pressure to innovate. One avenue to more efficient last-mile operations is incorporating out-of-home delivery (OOHD) services. In particular, the delivery to parcel lockers, instead of customers’ homes, is becoming more popular. When operating a system of parcel lockers, the providers face a number of challenging decision problems, from the strategic to the operational level. On a specific day, they have to decide which parcels to deliver to which locker, which compartments to use, when to visit a locker, and which routes the delivery vehicles should take. This problem is challenging because parcels arrive at the depot throughout the day and may be assigned to a selection of lockers, lockers may have to be restocked several times a day, and the available capacities are stochastic depending on the customers' pickup behavior. In this talk, we discuss basic properties of the resulting decision problem, present a corresponding markov decision process, and provide possible strategies for the problem’s solution as well as preliminary numerical results.
Keywords
- Logistics
- Routing
- Transportation
Status: accepted
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