Joint optimisation of drone routing and battery wear for sustainable supply chain development: a mixed-integer programming model based on blockchain-enabled fleet sharing

Alongside the rise of ‘last-mile’ delivery in contemporary urban logistics, drones have demonstrate commercial potential, given their outstanding triple-bottom-line performance. However, as a lithium-ion battery-powered device, drones’ social and environmental merits can be overturned by battery rec...

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Vydané v:Annals of operations research Ročník 327; číslo 1; s. 89 - 127
Hlavní autori: Xia, Yang, Zeng, Wenjia, Xing, Xinjie, Zhan, Yuanzhu, Tan, Kim Hua, Kumar, Ajay
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: New York Springer US 01.08.2023
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Predmet:
Algorithms
Blockchain
Business administration
Business and Management
Combinatorics
Cryptography
Data encryption
Drone aircraft
Economics and Finance
Humanities and Social Sciences
Integer programming
Lithium-ion batteries
Logistics
Mathematical optimization
Mixed integer
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Optimization
Original Research
Rechargeable batteries
Shortest-path problems
Supply chains
Technology application
Theory of Computation
Vehicle routing
China
Mixed-integer programming model
Sustainable supply chain management
Blockchain
Drone-assisted delivery
blockchain
ISSN:0254-5330, 1572-9338, 1572-9338
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Shrnutí:Alongside the rise of ‘last-mile’ delivery in contemporary urban logistics, drones have demonstrate commercial potential, given their outstanding triple-bottom-line performance. However, as a lithium-ion battery-powered device, drones’ social and environmental merits can be overturned by battery recycling and disposal. To maintain economic performance, yet minimise environmental negatives, fleet sharing is widely applied in the transportation field, with the aim of creating synergies within industry and increasing overall fleet use. However, if a sharing platform’s transparency is doubted, the sharing ability of the platform will be discounted. Known for its transparent and secure merits, blockchain technology provides new opportunities to improve existing sharing solutions. In particular, the decentralised structure and data encryption algorithm offered by blockchain allow every participant equal access to shared resources without undermining security issues. Therefore, this study explores the implementation of a blockchain-enabled fleet sharing solution to optimise drone operations, with consideration of battery wear and disposal effects. Unlike classical vehicle routing with fleet sharing problems, this research is more challenging, with multiple objectives (i.e., shortest path and fewest charging times), and considers different levels of sharing abilities. In this study, we propose a mixed-integer programming model to formulate the intended problem and solve the problem with a tailored branch-and-price algorithm. Through extensive experiments, the computational performance of our proposed solution is first articulated, and then the effectiveness of using blockchain to improve overall optimisation is reflected, and a series of critical influential factors with managerial significance are demonstrated.
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DOI:10.1007/s10479-021-04459-5