Title
Citywide package deliveries via crowdshipping: minimizing the efforts from crowdsourcers
Abstract
Most current crowdsourced logistics aim to minimize systems cost and maximize delivery capacity, but the efforts of crowdsourcers such as drivers are almost ignored. In the delivery process, drivers usually need to take long-distance detours in hitchhiking rides based package deliveries. In this paper, we propose an approach that integrates offline trajectory data mining and online route-and-schedule optimization in the hitchhiking ride scenario to find optimal delivery routes for packages and drivers. Specifically, we propose a two-phase framework for the delivery route planning and scheduling. In the first phase, the historical trajectory data are mined offline to build the package transport network. In the second phase, we model the delivery route planning and package-taxi matching as an integer linear programming problem and solve it with the Gurobi optimizer. After that, taxis are scheduled to deliver packages with optimal delivery paths via a newly designed scheduling strategy. We evaluate our approach with the real-world datasets; the results show that our proposed approach can complete citywide package deliveries with a high success rate and low extra efforts of taxi drivers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s11704-021-0568-5
FRONTIERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
crowdshipping, hitchhiking rides, dynamic elivery optimization, package delivery, taxi scheduling
Journal
16
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
2095-2228
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sijing Cheng100.34
Chao Chen212.71
Shenle Pan300.34
Hongyu Huang400.34
Wei Zhang500.34
Yuming Feng600.34