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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"parcel delivery"”.
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Light electric freight vehicles in last-mile delivery
… of Internet resulted in a booming e-commerce parcel delivery market. To cope with these ongoing market developments Postal Operators (POs) need to rigorously restructure their delivery networks frequently in order to reduce distribution cost. Moreover, POs are searching for synergy …
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A metaheuristic approach to optimizing a multimodal truck and drone delivery system
… of e-commerce continues to push the bounds of delivery services as customers expect near instant fulfillment at little additional cost. This demand for delivery performance and operational cost efficiency has led to the exploration of the last-mile delivery problem using creative multimodal …
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Adaptive Control of the Transition from Vertical to Horizontal Flight Regime of a Quad-Tailsitter UAV
… of applications from tactical surveillance to parcel delivery. This thesis details a clean sheet design process for a tailsitter UAV that includes the dynamic modeling, control design, simulation, vehicle design, vehicle prototype fabrication, and testing of a tailsitter UAV. The goal of this …
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A Systemic Analysis of the Defection Process in the Small Parcel Logistic Industry
… switched their vendor relationship in the small-parcel package industry. Prior to this research, no studies addressed this specific industry. Previous research mainly addressed attempts to understand antecedents and critical events that led to defection in consumer markets. These generalized …
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A Techno-Economic Analysis of Hydrogen, Electric, and Diesel Fuel in Medium- and Heavy-Duty Transportation Applications
… (Class 8), Short-Haul Trucking (Class 8), Parcel Delivery (Class 4), Tipper Dump Trucks (Class 6), Refuse (Garbage) Trucks (Class 6), Forklifts (Class 3), School Buses (Class 6), Transit Buses (Class 7). Certain application segments are modeled under multiple scenarios to account for key …
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Evaluation of power-assist hydraulic and electric hybrids for medium- and heavy-duty vehicle applications
… Dynamometer Driving Schedule, the HTUF Class 4 Parcel Delivery Cycle, and the Orange County Bus cycle. These drive cycles were chosen on their ability to characterize the variety of operating conditions observed in medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Using these models, cross technology comparisons …
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Intelligent orchestration of computation and networking for drone swarm applications
… scenarios, i.e., disaster management, last-mile parcel delivery, and smart farming are also addressed.
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Design and optimization of an explosive storage policy in internet fulfillment warehouses
… exclusively for online sales and an accompanying parcel delivery network. Based on observational studies of IFW operations at a leading internet retailer, the investigations find that traditional warehousing methods are being replaced by new methods which better leverage information technology and …
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Effects of road-network circuity on strategic decisions in urban logistics
… capacitated location routing problem. Using the parcel delivery operation of Brazil's largest e-commerce platform in the city of Sao Paulo as the primary example to illustrate the impact and relevance of this work, we demonstrate how explicitly accounting for local variations in road-network …
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Designing an On-Demand Dynamic Crowdshipping Model and Evaluating its Ability to Serve Local Retail Delivery in New York City
… and businesses (in the form of last-mile delivery), while taking into consideration a measurement of potential adoption by citizens (in the form of a survey). To find solutions for this mobility problem this dissertation proposes three distinct and complementary methodological studies.</p> …
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Last-mile logistics optimization in the on-demand economy
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