A Blockchain-Based System for the Last-Mile Delivery

Francesca Guerriero, Edoardo Scalzo, Rodolfo Calabrò, Giuseppe Scarfò

2023

Abstract

This paper describes the application of the blockchain technology in the last-mile delivery. The attention is focused on the Vehicle Routing Problem with Occasional Drivers and Time Windows constraints. The main aim is to develop a strategy, which uses the blockchain as a support to achieve a partially decentralized delivery system. An analysis of the advantages obtained by using such a technology, in terms of economic sustainability, is carried out on small-size test instances. The proposed system is implemented and tested by using three different EVM-compatible blockchains. The collected experimental results have shown that the implemented Polygon and VeChain blockchain systems allow to achieve good performance in terms of sustainability and seems to have good prospects in terms of scalability.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Guerriero F., Scalzo E., Calabrò R. and Scarfò G. (2023). A Blockchain-Based System for the Last-Mile Delivery. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-627-9, pages 237-244. DOI: 10.5220/0011886200003396

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores23,
author={Francesca Guerriero and Edoardo Scalzo and Rodolfo Calabrò and Giuseppe Scarfò},
title={A Blockchain-Based System for the Last-Mile Delivery},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2023},
pages={237-244},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011886200003396},
isbn={978-989-758-627-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - A Blockchain-Based System for the Last-Mile Delivery
SN - 978-989-758-627-9
AU - Guerriero F.
AU - Scalzo E.
AU - Calabrò R.
AU - Scarfò G.
PY - 2023
SP - 237
EP - 244
DO - 10.5220/0011886200003396