@article{1451079, author = {Pincay Nieves, Jhonny,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451079}, title = {Smart urban logistics : improving delivery services by computational intelligence /}, abstract = {Last-mile delivery in cities, where the main problems are the traffic situation and ensuring access to customers homes while maintaining their privacy, poses a substantial logistical challenge. This book explores how the service area of mobility, especially last-mile delivery, can be improved and smartified. It demonstrates how a design science method and a transdisciplinary approach have been used to create a traffic area analysis tool that can accommodate the uncertainty and incompleteness of geospatial data; a linguistic traffic merging tool; and a customer classifier. In terms of developing the optimization artifacts, the socio-economic and logistical aspects of cities were considered and fuzzy logic and nature-inspired swarm intelligence (fuzzy ant colony optimization) were applied as basic principles. Pursuing a transdisciplinary approach, the book offers both practical know-how from the industry and theoretical findings, making it a valuable asset for researchers and practitioners in the fields of mobility and logistics.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16704-1}, recid = {1451079}, pages = {1 online resource (xxiii, 170 pages) :}, }