A web-based experimental optimiser for supermarket home deliveries to improve efficiency and sustainability in response to the substantial growth in demand as a result of COVID-19

目前的超市送货上门机制通常为用户提供一组不灵活的时段(通常为2小时用于食物)，未能最大限度地利用客户在家的实际时间，并排除了严格的时段边界与外出活动不一致的客户的送货时间。该项目将为有人送货上门交付提供集成的时段预订和路线解决方案，允许最终用户指定任意送货可用性，而不是僵化的1、2或4小时时隙。通过这样做，它将使路线规划能够利用可用于向在家工作的人、退休人员和其他能够跨多个站台时间段接收快递的更广泛的时间窗口。更宽的时间窗口转化为更高效的路线计划，节省燃料、司机的时间、二氧化碳排放和交通拥堵。效率节约可以用于通过更低的送货费用来造福客户，特别是奖励那些能够提供最广泛可获得性的人。

Current supermarket home delivery mechanisms typically offer users an inflexible set of slots (usually 2 hours for food) which fail to make maximum use of the customer's actual time at home and rule out delivery times for customers for whom the rigid slot boundaries do not align with out-of-home activities.The project will deliver and integrated slot booking and routing solution for Attended Home Delivery that will allow end-users to specify arbitrary delivery availability rather than rigid 1, 2 or 4 hour time slots. In doing so it will enable route planning to take advantage of the wider time windows available for delivery to home workers, the retired and others who are able to receive deliveries across more than the stand time slot.Wider time windows translate to more efficient route plans, saving fuel, driver's hours, CO2 emissions and traffic congestion.The efficiency savings could be used to benefit customers through lower delivery charges particularly rewarding those who can provide the widest availability.