Smart logistics: distributed control of green crowdsourced parcel services

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 54, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 6956-6968

  Lee, Seokgi ^a   Kang, Yuncheol ^b   Prabhu, Vittaldas V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon emissions; fuel consumption; just in time; Markov decision process; on demand delivery service

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FUEL CONSUMPTION; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES;

CARBON EMISSIONS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DELIVERY SERVICE; INTEGRATED DECISION MAKINGS; JUST IN TIME; JUST-IN-TIME DELIVERY; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES;

FUELS;

EID: 84954157460     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2015.1132856     Document Type: Article

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