Small shipment sustainable deliveries within and between cities
2024
Patlins, Pavels
The paper deals with small shipment delivery-planning problems either within cities or between cities. The small shipment delivery planning is a corner stone for forwarders, couriers, express-mail companies, retailers, wholesalers and other companies, which are responsible for delivery processes. It is significant to plan the delivery by optimal way, reducing both rates — time and cost of delivery. It is important to satisfy customers’ needs simultaneously. Pendulum route planning is the main problem for small cargo delivery planning between cities. It is necessary to choose the best transport mode combination, the most appropriated hub, the best route and the best forwarding company. Small shipment delivery planning in cities has another problem. Despite of the smaller transportation distance, it often takes more than half into total delivery costs. Smaller vehicles are used in transportation within cities. Hard intensity of traffic, great number of customers and cargo loading circumstances make the delivery problem more difficult. Managers have to plan efficient transportations. The author of the paper recommends analysing the specification of demand at first to choose the most appropriated strategy of delivery. It is expedient to divide the route into separated blocks; picking out the main mode of transport, the best hubs into the route as well as last 500 kilometres problems of delivery (FHD problem — the main novelty of the paper) planning. Then it is necessary to find the solution for the last 50 kilometres delivery and, finally, to solve the last mile delivery problem.
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Publisher Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
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