Approximating the Performance of a "Last Mile" Transportation System

• Main Authors: Hai WANG, ODONI, Amedeo
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Last mile problem; queueing; batch demands; waiting time approximation; cyclic assignment; vehicle routing; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Transportation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2968; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3968/viewcontent/approxim_lastmile.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The Last Mile Problem (LMP) refers to the provision of travel service from the nearest public transportation node to a home or office. We study the supply side of this problem in a stochastic setting, with batch demands resulting from the arrival of groups of passengers who request last-mile service...