Speaker: Professor Sanne Wohik 
Affiliation: Aarhus University, Denmark

Abstract

In urban logistics, the integration of drones with traditional delivery methods presents a promising avenue for improving efficiency and sustainability. This study addresses the optimization of last-mile deliveries by a single drone-truck system. We consider the case with one drone and one vehicle, which both start and terminate at the depot. The drone can make autonomous deliveries, can pick up packages independently, and can recharge by itself. The resulting problem, which we call a Single Drone-Truck Routing Problem, has the challenge of coordinating the drone and the truck while constructing routes. We propose an exact approach based on Logic-Based Benders Decomposition to solving the problem, which is both more efficient and more flexible than a straight-forward model for the problem.

About Statistics, modelling and operations research seminars

Students, staff and visitors to UQ are welcome to attend our regular seminars.

The events are jointly run by our Operations research and Statistics and probability research groups.

The Statistics, modelling and operations research (SMOR) Seminar series seeks to celebrate and disseminate research and developments across the broad spectrum of quantitative sciences. The SMOR series provides a platform for communication of both theoretical and practical developments, as well as interdisciplinary topics relating to applied mathematics and statistics.

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