The Locker Alliance Network (LAN) is a recent smart nation initiative introduced in Singapore for parcel pickup by customers, to improve the efficiency of last mile operation. This government facility is open to all logistic service providers (LSPs) operating in the country. With more parcels...

This paper studies whether a regulator needs to correct the route structure choice by carriers with market power in the presence of congestion externalities, in addition to correct their pricing. We account for passenger benefits from increased frequency, passenger connecting costs, airline...

Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology and the ever increasing demand in every field, wireless sensor networks are emerging as a necessary scientific achievement to meet the demand of human in modern society. The wireless sensor network (WSN) is designed to help us not...

In this paper, we investigate a two-tier delivery network with robots operating on the second tier. We determine the optimal number of local robot hubs as well as the optimal number of robots to service all customers and compare the resulting operational cost to conventional truck-based...