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dc.contributor.advisorYu, Hao
dc.contributor.authorAasen, Kristina Charlotte Pedersen
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-06T08:57:54Z
dc.date.available2021-12-06T08:57:54Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-18en
dc.description.abstractThe e-commerce industry is experiencing rapid growth, and growing customer expectations and demand challenges the industry to find more cost-efficient ways of performing the last-mile deliveries. Drones have in recent years been a hot topic, and with high versatility and several application areas it may be the answer to the challenge. In this project a Vans-and-Drones System for Last-Mile Delivery have been developed considering effective task allocation and route scheduling. A literature review is presented on the topic of drone technology and application areas, especially emphasizing utilization of drones in logistic operations and routing problems. A mathematical model for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Drones is derived based on the classical Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem, and the formulation is modeled in Jupyter Notebook with Python programming language and solved with CPLEX solver. A case study is carried out to examine the effects of integrating drones into the delivery system for a vaccine distribution scenario in a sparsely populated area, Ofoten region, considering vehicle employment cost, delivery time and emission impact. Results show that the proposed vans-and-drones system outperforms a truck-only delivery system for this purpose.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23277
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universitetno
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDINE-3900
dc.subjectVDP::Teknologi: 500::Industri- og produktdesign: 640en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Technology: 500::Industrial and product design: 640en_US
dc.titleDeveloping a Vans-and-Drones System for Last-Mile Deliveryen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveno


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