Scheduling last-mile deliveries with truck-based autonomous robots

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2018.05.058zbMath1403.90306OpenAlexW2806974714MaRDI QIDQ1653394

Stefan Schwerdfeger, Nils Boysen, Felix Weidinger

Publication date: 3 August 2018

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.05.058

zbMATH Keywords

transportationschedulingautonomous robotscity logistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35) Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35)

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