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Journal of the Operational Research Society Volume 72, 2021 - Issue 2
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Parcel delivery by vehicle and drone

Amro M. El-AdleOperations and Information Management Department, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8492-5267
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Ahmed GhoniemOperations and Information Management Department, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; Correspondence[email protected]
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Mohamed HaouariDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; ;Engineering Management & Systems Engineering, Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA
Pages 398-416 | Received 13 Mar 2019, Accepted 10 Sep 2019, Published online: 24 Oct 2019
 
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Abstract

We investigate a single-vehicle parcel delivery problem in which customers may be served either by the vehicle or by a portable companion drone launched from the vehicle. The problem may be viewed as a Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone (TSP-D), and is modelled as a 0-1 mixed-integer program (MIP) that synchronizes vehicle and drone operations with the objective of minimizing the duration of the joint tour. Using a combination of valid inequalities, pre-processing, and other bound tightening strategies, we enhance the tractability of the proposed MIP formulation.

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