Assessing a Drone Based Last Mile Logistics Solution

Bruno Lamiscarre
Innocent E. Davidson
Luis Gustavo Zelaya Cruz
Félix Mora-Camino

Durban University of Technology · Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Event: XIX SITRAER – São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil, October 25–27, 2022
Volume: Proceedings of SITRAER 2022 – Air Transportation Symposium · ISSN 2448-1912
Pages: 612–619
Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Transporte Aéreo (SBTA)
Editors: Giovanna Miceli Ronzani Borille, Rogéria de Arantes Gomes, Evandro José da Silva, Mauro Caetano, Cláudia Azevedo Pereira

Abstract

In this communication a general hybrid LMD solution is considered where two types of last mile delivery vehicles are considered to operate in a coordinated way: ground vehicles and UAVs. These types of vehicles are characterized by their respective payload volume and weight capacity, by their nominal speed and by their operating costs (travel cost and energy consumption per unit of distance and load) as well by their mean speeds, loading and unloading times. In this solution, ground logistics vehicles attend off-line the planned demand while UAVs attends on-line unplanned demand. Simplified performance models are proposed to assess the proposed solution in term of cost and time response.

Keywords: last mile logistics (LMD); unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); sustainability; fleet sizing; BHH theorem; stochastic processes

How to cite

ABNT

LAMISCARRE, Bruno; DAVIDSON, Innocent E.; CRUZ, Luis Gustavo Zelaya; MORA-CAMINO, Félix. Assessing a Drone Based Last Mile Logistics Solution. In: SIMPÓSIO DE TRANSPORTE AÉREO, 19., 2022, São José dos Campos. Anais [...]. São José dos Campos: SBTA, 2022. p. 612-619. ISSN 2448-1912. Disponível em: https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2022-sit145.html.

APA

Lamiscarre, B., Davidson, I. E., Cruz, L. G. Z., & Mora-Camino, F. (2022). Assessing a Drone Based Last Mile Logistics Solution. In G. M. R. Borille, R. A. Gomes, E. J. Silva, M. Caetano, & C. A. Pereira (Eds.), Proceedings of SITRAER 2022 – Air Transportation Symposium (pp. 612–619). SBTA. https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2022-sit145.html

BibTeX

@inproceedings{lamiscarre2022assessing,
  author = {Lamiscarre, Bruno and Davidson, Innocent E. and Cruz, Luis Gustavo Zelaya and Mora-Camino, Félix},
  title = {{Assessing a Drone Based Last Mile Logistics Solution}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of SITRAER 2022 – Air Transportation Symposium},
  editor = {Borille, Giovanna Miceli Ronzani and Gomes, Rogéria de Arantes and Silva, Evandro José da and Caetano, Mauro and Pereira, Cláudia Azevedo},
  pages = {612--619},
  year = {2022},
  address = {São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil},
  publisher = {Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Transporte Aéreo (SBTA)},
  issn = {2448-1912},
  url = {https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2022-sit145.html}
}