Smart Urban Logistics: Improving Delivery Services By Computational Intelligence (Fuzzy Management Methods)

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.

• | Author: Jhonny Pincay Nieves
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Nov 08, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 193 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3031167031
• | ISBN-13: 9783031167034