 Delivering on Delivery: Optimisation and the Future of Vehicle RoutingChristina Burt,
Paul Hart (),
Desislava Petrova and
Adam West ()
A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2017, 2018, pp 747-752 from Springer Abstract: Abstract As the demand for home delivery continues to grow, so too does the need for organisations to implement more efficient delivery operations. For our clients, the constraints imposed on home delivery are numerous — and it is a challenge that causes many organisations to struggle. Our clients have any number of vehicles, each with limited capacity. Vehicles are limited to certain routes, and routes are often limited by traffic, accidents or road closures. Add driver shifts, multiple destinations and the rising desire for nominated time-window delivery (slots) and you get a scheduling problem no human operator can solve with any degree of accuracy. Our data-driven, operations research approach has, and will continue to improve the efficiency of home delivery; reducing costs for our clients, and vastly improving the customer experience. Keywords: Last-mile delivery; Vehicle routing problem; Online optimisation (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:oprchp:978-3-319-89920-6_99 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89920-6_99 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Operations Research Proceedings from Springer |
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