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A comparison of optimized deliveries by drone and truck
Transportation Planning and Technology ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 , DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2021.1883230
Youngmin Choi 1 , Paul M. Schonfeld 1
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ABSTRACT

This paper formulates and compares four alternatives of package delivery service with and without the aid of drones: (i) conventional truck, (ii) drone supported by truck, (iii) one-to-one delivery by drone, and (iv) one-to-many delivery by drone. Each delivery alternative is optimized numerically with an objective of total cost minimization (i.e. the sum of user’s and operator’s costs). For analyzing the delivery systems, the authors employ their recently developed distance approximation methods that estimate average tour lengths when only a few points are visited points, due to limited drone loading capacity. Analyses are conducted with respect to sensitivity to driver pay rate, demand density, user value of waiting time for delivery, drone operating speed, service area size, drone size, and distribution hub location. For reasonable baseline inputs, results indicate that using drones for package deliveries may be cost-effective compared to using conventional trucks.



中文翻译:

无人机和卡车优化交付的比较

摘要

本文提出并比较了使用和不使用无人机的包裹递送服务的四种选择:(i)传统卡车,(ii)卡车支撑的无人机,(iii)一对一的无人机递送和(iv)一个无人机进行多对多交付。每个交付方案都在数字上进行了优化,目的是将总成本降到最低(即,用户和运营商的成本之和)。为了分析传送系统,作者采用了他们最近开发的距离近似方法,由于无人机的载重能力有限,该方法可以在只有几个点被访问时估计平均游程长度。进行以下分析:对驾驶员薪酬率,需求密度,交付等待时间的用户价值,无人机运行速度,服务区域大小,无人机大小和配送中心位置的敏感性。

更新日期:2021-03-01
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