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We consider the one-to-one Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) in Euclidean Space with arbitrary dimension $d$ where $n$ transportation requests are picked i.i.d. with a separate origin-destination pair for each object to be moved. First, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Martin Olsen

Managing delivery deadlines in automated warehouses and factories is crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and ensuring seamless production. This study introduces the problem of online multi-agent pickup and delivery with task…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hiroya Makino , Seigo Ito

Truckload procurement plays a vital role in integrated container logistics, particularly under the uncertainties of container flow and market conditions. We formulate the operational volume allocation problem in drayage procurement as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Georgios Vassos , Richard Lusby , Pierre Pinson

This paper presents a set-partitioning formulation and a novel decomposition heuristic (D-H) solution algorithm to solve large-scale instances of the urban crowdsourced shared-trip delivery (CSD) problem. The CSD problem involves dedicated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Dingtong Yang , Michael F. Hyland , R. Jayakrishnan

Our work departs from the original definition of the Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) and extends it by considering an interchange point (crossdock) where vehicles can exchange their goods with other vehicles in order to shorten their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis , Amalia Nikolopoulou

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are widely used in various industries, and scheduling and routing them in a conflict-free manner is crucial to their efficient operation. We propose a loop-based algorithm that solves the online,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Louis Stubbe , Jens Goemaere , Jan Goedgebeur

Transit agencies that operate on-demand transportation services have to respond to trip requests from passengers in real time, which involves solving dynamic vehicle routing problems with pick-up and drop-off constraints. Based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Amutheezan Sivagnanam , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Samitha Samaranayake , Abhishek Dubey , Aron Laszka

This paper introduces a warehouse optimization procedure aimed at enhancing the efficiency of product storage and retrieval. By representing product locations and order flows within a time-evolving graph structure, we employ unsupervised…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Magnus Bengtsson , Jens Wittsten , Jonas Waidringer

The min-max vehicle routing problem (min-max VRP) traverses all given customers by assigning several routes and aims to minimize the length of the longest route. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL)-based sequential planning methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Zhi Zheng , Shunyu Yao , Zhenkun Wang , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan , Ke Tang

The application of drones in the last-mile distribution is a research hotspot in recent years. Different from the previous urban distribution mode that depends on trucks, this paper proposes a novel package pick-up and delivery mode and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Fangyu Hong , Guohua Wu , Qizhang Luo , Huan Liu , Xiaoping Fang , Witold Pedrycz

Logistics and transport are core of many industrial and business processes. One of the most promising segments in the field is optimisation of vehicle routes. Scientific effort is focused primarily on algorithms developed in simplified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Nikica Peric , Slaven Begovic , Vinko Lesic

We study a routing and appointment scheduling problem with uncertain service and travel times arising from home service practice. Specifically, given a set of customers within a service region that an operator needs to serve, we seek to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Man Yiu , Tsang , Karmel S. Shehadeh

We introduce the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows and Scheduling on the Edges (PDPTW-SE), a generalization of the PDPTW that integrates vehicle routing and machine scheduling. The problem involves defining routes for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Vítor A. Barbosa , Sunil Tiwari , Rafael A. Melo

In this paper we study a dynamic vehicle routing problem in which there are multiple vehicles and multiple classes of demands. Demands of each class arrive in the environment randomly over time and require a random amount of on-site service…

Robotics · Computer Science 2009-03-17 Marco Pavone , Stephen L. Smith , Francesco Bullo , Emilio Frazzoli

This paper addresses an Electric Vehicle Relocation Problem (E-VReP), in one-way carsharing systems, based on operators who move through folding bicycles between a delivery request and one of pickup. In order to deal with its economical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Maurizio Bruglieri , Ferdinando Pezzella , Ornella Pisacane

The vehicle routing problem has great importance and application in transportation and supply chain management. In this case, there are several supply requests in a transportation network. The main goal is to allocate customers to available…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 H. Bigdeli , S. M. S. Mirdamadi , A. Deaconu , J. Tayyebi

Fixed pickup and delivery times can strongly limit the performance of freight transportation. Against this backdrop, fleet operators can use compensation mechanisms such as monetary incentives to buy delay time from their customers, in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Canqi Yao , Shibo Chen , Mauro Salazar , Zaiyue Yang

Over the past few years, ride-sharing has emerged as an effective way to relieve traffic congestion. A key problem for these platforms is to come up with a revenue-optimal (or GMV-optimal) pricing scheme and an induced vehicle dispatching…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Mengjing Chen , Weiran Shen , Pingzhong Tang , Song Zuo

This paper addresses the cooperative Multi-Vehicle Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem with Stochastic Requests (MVDPDPSR) and proposes an end-to-end centralized decision-making framework based on sequence-to-sequence, named Multi-Agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zengyu Zou , Jingyuan Wang , Yixuan Huang , Junjie Wu

Robotized warehouses are deployed to automatically distribute millions of items brought by the massive logistic orders from e-commerce. A key to automated item distribution is to plan paths for robots, also known as task planning, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Dingyuan Shi , Yongxin Tong , Zimu Zhou , Ke Xu , Wenzhe Tan , Hongbo Li