Measuring Backtracking on Delivery Routes through Community Detection

In logistics, backtracking is the act of a route returning to an area that it has already visited. Despite backtracking’s clear potential to be a source of inefficiency and driver frustration, there is little existing research on backtracking in transportation. We set out to devise a method to measu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Noszek, Joseph Robert
Other Authors: Winkenbach, Matthias
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144575
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6214-5585