Smart Urban Logistics: Improving Delivery Services by Computational Intelligence

By: Pincay Nieves, Jhonny

Last-mile delivery in cities, where the main problems are the traffic situation and ensuring access to customers' homes while maintaining their privacy, poses a substantial logistical challenge. This book explores how the service area of mobility, especially last-mile delivery, can be improved and smartified. It demonstrates how a design science method and a transdisciplinary approach have been used to create a traffic area analysis tool that can accommodate the uncertainty and incompleteness of geospatial data; a linguistic traffic merging tool; and a customer classifier. In terms of developing the optimization artifacts, the socio-economic and logistical aspects of cities were considered and fuzzy logic and nature-inspired swarm intelligence (fuzzy ant colony optimization) were applied as basic principles. Pursuing a transdisciplinary approach, the book offers both practical know-how from the industry and theoretical findings, making it a valuable asset for researchers and practitioners in the fields of mobility and logistics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031167066
• ISBN13: 9783031167065
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"