Online Variant of Parcel Allocation in Last-mile Delivery
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We investigate the problem of last-mile delivery, where a large pool of citizen crowd-workers are hired to perform a variety of location-specific urban logistics parcel delivering tasks. Current approaches focus on offline scenarios, where all the spatio temporal information of parcels and workers are given. However, the offline scenarios can be im- practical since parcels and workers appear dynamically in real applica- tions, and their information is unknown in advance. In this paper, in order to solve the shortcomings of the offline setting, we first formal- ize the online parcel allocation in last-mile delivery problem, where all parcels were put in pop-stations in advance, while workers arrive dynam- ically. Then we propose an algorithm which provides theoretical guaran- tee for the parcel allocation in last-mile delivery. Finally, we verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method through extensive experiments on real and synthetic datasets.
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