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Impact of UAV Delivery on Sustainability and Costs under Traffic Restrictions
Joint Authors
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-15, 15 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-08-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Compared with traditional vehicles delivery, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery can reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, which benefits environmental sustainability.
Besides, UAVs can overcome traffic restrictions, which are the big obstacle in parcel delivery.
In reality, there are two kinds of most popular traffic restrictions, vehicle-type restriction, and half-side traffic.
We propose a mixed-integer (0-1 linear) green routing model with these two kinds of traffic restrictions for UAVs to exploit the environmental aspects of the use of UAVs in logistics.
A genetic algorithm is proposed to efficiently solve the complex routing problem, and an experimental analysis is made to illustrate and validate our model and the algorithm.
We found that, under both these two traffic restrictions, UAV delivery can accomplish deliveries that cannot be carried out or are carried out at much higher costs by vehicles only and can always effectively save costs and cut CO2 emissions, which is environmentally friendly.
Furthermore, UAV delivery saves more cost and cuts more CO2 emission under the first kind of traffic restriction than that under the second.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Li, Yuyu& Yang, Wei& Huang, Bo. 2020. Impact of UAV Delivery on Sustainability and Costs under Traffic Restrictions. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202235
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Li, Yuyu…[et al.]. Impact of UAV Delivery on Sustainability and Costs under Traffic Restrictions. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202235
American Medical Association (AMA)
Li, Yuyu& Yang, Wei& Huang, Bo. Impact of UAV Delivery on Sustainability and Costs under Traffic Restrictions. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202235
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1202235