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To evaluate whether language models can capture implicit operational knowledge from experienced drivers to optimize real-world urban delivery routing.

September 29, 2023The InnovationOpen Access

Can language models be used for real-world urban-delivery route optimization?

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YLYang LiuTsinghua University FWFanyou WuPurdue University West Lafayette ZLZhiyuan LiuSoutheast University

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Computational study demonstrates improved delivery route planning using language models on real-world logistics data, highlighting the value of modeling human operational experience.

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To evaluate whether language models can capture implicit operational knowledge from experienced drivers to optimize real-world urban delivery routing.
Analogized delivery routes to sentences, using unsupervised learning to construct vector representations of stops and predict delivery sequences via a tailored chain-reaction algorithm.
Developed a hybrid framework combining language models for zone-level delivery inference with classical traveling salesman problem models for intra-zone optimization.
Evaluated the proposed hybrid system using empirical operations data from Amazon delivery services.
Demonstrated that the hybrid language model and traveling salesman problem framework outperformed standard pure optimization approaches.
Showed that implicit human behavior and operational knowledge can be effectively captured and transferred by representing route paths as learnable sequences.

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Liu et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a129176a2d24b27c1679806 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100520

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Computational study demonstrates improved delivery route planning using language models on real-world logistics data, highlighting the value of modeling human operational experience.

Can language models be used for real-world urban-delivery route optimization?

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Can language models be used for real-world urban-delivery route optimization?

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