From synthetic population to parcel demand: A modeling pipeline and case study for last-mile deliveries in Lyon

Abstract

International audienceThe paper describes an open and fully replicable pipeline to assess the performance of parcel delivery systems. Starting with publicly available data in France, a range of open source tools is used to create a synthetic population of the region from which its parcel delivery demand is derived. Using JSprit for solving the resulting Vehicle Routing Problem and simulating vehicle movements, a test case for automated delivery robots in the Confluence neighborhood of Lyon is set up and analyzed