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Title	Rendezvous Delivery: Utilizing Autonomous Electric Vehicles To Improve The Efficiency Of Last Mile Parcel Delivery In Urban Areas
ID_Doc	45050
Authors	Nolte F.P.; Wilken N.; Bartelt C.
Year	2021
Published	2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2021
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PerComWorkshops51409.2021.9430987
Abstract	Recent advances in technology have led to an increasing degree of automation and optimization in most areas of the parcel logistics process. However, this trend has not been widely adopted in one critical part of the process, which is the actual delivery (also often referred to as 'last mile'). One critical task in the last mile delivery process is the computation of a set of optimal delivery tours for a set of given delivery locations. This task is commonly known as the vehicle routing problem. In this work, we propose an extended version of the vehicle routing problem that aims to increase the degree of automation in the last mile delivery process by leveraging on the current advancements in the area of autonomous driving. Furthermore, we study the application of state-of-the-art machine learning methods to solve the proposed problem. We show that such a set up can reduce the overall time needed for delivering parcels compared to the conventional method, in which the delivery agent manually drives the delivery vehicle to each delivery address. In addition, the proposed model is computationally cheap which is essential to support close to real time analysis of context changes (e.g., traffic situation) and decision making, which is critical for an application in the context of highly dynamic Smart City environments. © 2021 IEEE.
Author Keywords	last-mile delivery; parcel logistics; vehicle routing

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