Tag: Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
Joint pricing and matching lowered crowd-shipping delivery costs
What the study found The study found that a joint policy for matching orders to shoppers and setting delivery compensation can reduce delivery costs in a crowd-shipping system that uses in-store customers as couriers. The authors report that allowing multi-drop routing and flexible delivery delays also lowers operational costs. Why the authors say this matters…
Hybrid model ranks order pickers and allocates bonuses
Study develops hybrid DEA-SWARA-COPRAS model for evaluating order picker efficiency and allocating performance bonuses in e-commerce fulfillment operations.
Driver overtime reduced routing costs in a flower delivery network
Route-based MILP analysis shows explicit overtime inclusion and driver workload constraints yield 9.7%–36.4% cost reductions; overtime most benefits long-distance deliveries and cost vs distance.
