ASSESSING A DRONE BASED LAST MILE LOGISTICS SOLUTION¶
Bruno Lamiscarre - Durban University of Technology -
Innocent E. Davidson - Durban University of Technology -
Luis Gustavo Zelaya Cruz - Universidade Federal Fluminense -
Felix Mora-Camino - Durban University of Technology -
Abstract¶
In this communication a general hybrid LMD solution is considered where two types of last mile delivery vehicles are considered to operate in a coordinated way: ground vehicles and UAVs. These types of vehicles are characterized by their respective payload volume and weight capacity, by their nominal speed and by their operating costs (travel cost and energy consumption per unit of distance and load) as well by their mean speeds, loading and unloading times. In this solution, ground logistics vehicles attend off-line the planned demand while UAVs attends on-line unplanned demand. Simplified performance models are proposed to assess the proposed solution in term of cost and time response.
Keywords: Last Mile Delivery Logistics - Unmanned aerial vehicles - Sustainability
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@inproceedings{SIT145,
author = {Bruno Lamiscarre; Innocent E. Davidson; Luis Gustavo Zelaya Cruz; Felix Mora-Camino},
title = {ASSESSING A DRONE BASED LAST MILE LOGISTICS SOLUTION},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 Air Transportation Symposium},
series = {SITRAER 2022},
year = {2022},
pages = {612-620},
publisher = {SBTA - Brazilian Air Transportation Research Society},
address = {São José dos Campos, Brazil,}
}
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