Drone shipping versus truck delivery in a cross-docking system with multiple fleets and products

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Highlights:

• We propose a new bi-objective multi-product combined cross-docking truck-scheduling model.

• The model allows for direct drone shipping from supplier to customers and multiple fleets.

• An efficient multi-objective epsilon-constraint method is adapted to solve the model.

• The efficient Pareto frontiers are estimated by generating non-dominated solutions.

• We analyze the effects that changes in direct shipping costs have on the Pareto frontiers.

摘要

•We propose a new bi-objective multi-product combined cross-docking truck-scheduling model.•The model allows for direct drone shipping from supplier to customers and multiple fleets.•An efficient multi-objective epsilon-constraint method is adapted to solve the model.•The efficient Pareto frontiers are estimated by generating non-dominated solutions.•We analyze the effects that changes in direct shipping costs have on the Pareto frontiers.

论文关键词:Drone shipping,Cross-docking,Truck-scheduling,Multiple products,Multiple fleets

论文评审过程:Received 3 August 2016, Revised 31 October 2016, Accepted 8 December 2016, Available online 9 December 2016, Version of Record 21 December 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.12.014