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Open-Source Optimization For Green Last Mile Delivery And Other Applications, John Sooter
Open-Source Optimization For Green Last Mile Delivery And Other Applications, John Sooter
Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Solving combinatorial optimization problems at scale and of sufficiently interesting context has historically required commercial solvers and access to proprietary company data. The development of performant open-source mathematical programming software and crowdsourced datasets has created an opportunity for individuals and enterprises alike to consider alternative solutions to problems with social and personal implications. This honors thesis represents a summary of my undergraduate research work, an application of optimization to three distinct problems connected to these developments. First, we present an optimization study of a last mile delivery system that shows optimization for energy consumption can generate vehicleindependent fuel savings at …