Routing in drone-based last-mile services

Abstract

The increasing growth of online shopping and e-commerce is creating several challenges, and new solutions have emerged in last-mile logistics to meet the ever-increasing demand for parcel delivery. Drone-based last-mile logistics processes are nowadays mainly in the testing phase, but several multinational freight forwarding companies already have air licences to use these drones. Within the frame of this article the authors present a solution algorithm suitable for solving drone-based last-mile flight planning tasks.