Drone-Based Parcel Delivery Using the Rooftops of City Buildings: Model and Solution
In general, the demand for delivery cannot be fulfilled efficiently due to the excessive traffic in dense urban areas. Therefore, many innovative concepts for intelligent transportation of freight have recently been developed. One of these concepts relies on drone-based parcel delivery using rooftop...
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| description | In general, the demand for delivery cannot be fulfilled efficiently due to the excessive traffic in dense urban areas. Therefore, many innovative concepts for intelligent transportation of freight have recently been developed. One of these concepts relies on drone-based parcel delivery using rooftops of city buildings. To apply drone logistics system in cities, the operation design should be adequately prepared. In this regard, a mixed integer programming model for drone operation planning and a heuristic based on block stacking are newly proposed to provide solutions. Additionally, numerical experiments with three different problem sizes are conducted to check the feasibility of the proposed model and to assess the performance of the proposed heuristic. The experimental results show that the proposed model seems to be viable and that the developed heuristic provides very good operation plans in terms of the optimality gap and the computation time. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-502ebd555b8244e0b35f5dc1cb22172e2023-11-20T04:56:45ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172020-06-011012436210.3390/app10124362Drone-Based Parcel Delivery Using the Rooftops of City Buildings: Model and SolutionJunsu Kim0Hongbin Moon1Hosang Jung2Asia Pacific School of Logistics, Inha University, Incheon 22212, KoreaAsia Pacific School of Logistics, Inha University, Incheon 22212, KoreaAsia Pacific School of Logistics, Inha University, Incheon 22212, KoreaIn general, the demand for delivery cannot be fulfilled efficiently due to the excessive traffic in dense urban areas. Therefore, many innovative concepts for intelligent transportation of freight have recently been developed. One of these concepts relies on drone-based parcel delivery using rooftops of city buildings. To apply drone logistics system in cities, the operation design should be adequately prepared. In this regard, a mixed integer programming model for drone operation planning and a heuristic based on block stacking are newly proposed to provide solutions. Additionally, numerical experiments with three different problem sizes are conducted to check the feasibility of the proposed model and to assess the performance of the proposed heuristic. The experimental results show that the proposed model seems to be viable and that the developed heuristic provides very good operation plans in terms of the optimality gap and the computation time.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/12/4362urban logisticssmart citiesdroneparcel delivery |
| spellingShingle | Junsu Kim Hongbin Moon Hosang Jung Drone-Based Parcel Delivery Using the Rooftops of City Buildings: Model and Solution Applied Sciences urban logistics smart cities drone parcel delivery |
| title | Drone-Based Parcel Delivery Using the Rooftops of City Buildings: Model and Solution |
| title_full | Drone-Based Parcel Delivery Using the Rooftops of City Buildings: Model and Solution |
| title_fullStr | Drone-Based Parcel Delivery Using the Rooftops of City Buildings: Model and Solution |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drone-Based Parcel Delivery Using the Rooftops of City Buildings: Model and Solution |
| title_short | Drone-Based Parcel Delivery Using the Rooftops of City Buildings: Model and Solution |
| title_sort | drone based parcel delivery using the rooftops of city buildings model and solution |
| topic | urban logistics smart cities drone parcel delivery |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/12/4362 |
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