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2055. Parcel delivery planning with multiple parcel services and crowdworkers

Invited abstract in session TB-56: Crowdsourcing Logistics, stream Transportation.

Tuesday, 10:30-12:00
Room: S04 (building: 101)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Dominik Stampa
FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik
2. Stefan Nickel
Institute for Operations Research (IOR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Abstract

There are several more or less established options for transporting parcels. Classic parcel delivery
is usually done by van, with only a few parcel services available. These parcel services operate in
large areas, e.g., across an entire country. Looking at recent developments, there are services that
only operate in small areas, e.g., a city, and deliver parcels, for example, by bike. In recent research,
delivery per drone or autonomous vehicle is investigated, usually restricted to smaller areas like cities
or city districts. In addition to these dierent types of delivery services, we want to consider commuters as a resource for parcel transportation. The inclusion of commuters could open up previously
untapped transport capacity potentials. Commuters with car could make their transport capacity
available on the way to work and transport parcels as crowdworkers. If we integrate all these types
of delivery services and crowdworkers into a general delivery network, we can split parcel deliveries among several parties. A single parcel can then be transported by several delivery services or
crowdworkers. We present an algorithm, based on a shortest path approach, that, given a customer's
delivery order, computes a transport from sender to recipient independently of other orders. With
this approach, we can immediately provide the customer with transportation proposals based on
dierent objectives such as delivery time, emissions, or price.

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Status: accepted

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