Abstract: Integrating public transport in sustainable last-mile delivery

We consider a delivery system for last-mile deliveries in urban areas based on the use of Public Transport Service. The idea is to exploit the spare capacity of public transport means to transport parcels within urban areas, thus reducing externalities caused by commercial delivery vans. Specifically, the system is such that parcels are first transported from origins to drop-in stations on public vehicles itineraries. Then, they are transported through public vehicles to drop-out stations, from where they are delivered to destination by freighters using green vehicles. The system is known as Freight-On-Transit (FOT). We present the optimization problem related with and operational decisions, as well as ad-hoc solution methodologies and simulations on synthetic data. 

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ARCHETTI CLAUDIA

Claudia Archetti is Associate Professor of Operations Research at University of Brescia. From September 2021 to September 2024, she was Full Professor in Operations Research at ESSEC Business School in Paris. The main areas of the scientific activity are: models and algorithms for vehicle routing problems; mixed integer mathematical programming models for the minimization of the sum of inventory and transportation costs in logistic networks; exact and heuristic algorithms for supply-chain management; reoptimization of combinatorial optimization problems. 

She is author of more than 100 papers in international journals. She is co-Editor in Chief of Networks. She was VIP3 of EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies, in charge of publications and communication.

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