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 2013
• Subjects: Last mile problem; queuing; batch demands; waiting time bounds; cyclic assignment; OS and Networks; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3646; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4648/viewcontent/Approximating_the_Performance_of_a__Last_Mile__Transportation.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The Last Mile Problem (LMP) refers to the provision of travel service from thenearest public transportation node to a home or office. We study the supply side of thisproblem in a stochastic setting, with batch demands resulting from the arrival of groupsof passengers at rail stations or bus stops wh...