Incentive Schemes for Attended Home Delivery Services - Campbell, Ann Melissa; Savelsbergh, Martin (Transportation science, 2006)
Keywords: Analysis; Applied sciences; Business orders; Consumer behavior; Cost control; Cost incentives; Cost reduction; Customer services; Customers; Delivery costs; Delivery services; Exact sciences and technology; Grocery stores; Ground, air and sea transportation, marine construction; Heuristics; Home delivery of goods; Home delivery services; Incentives; Linear programming; Logistics; Marketing; Mathematical models; Modeling; Motivation; Optimization; Postal & delivery services; Profitability; Profits; Route optimization; Simulation; Studies; Transport; Transport economics; Transportation; Transportation planning, management and economics; vehicle routing; Vehicles; Vendors; United States; Incentive; Delivery (good); Consumer behavior; Vehicle routing problem; Transportation; home delivery services; vehicle routing; Modeling; Cost lowering; Optimization; Logistics