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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">REA Press</journal-id>
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      <journal-title>REA Press</journal-title><issn pub-type="ppub">3042-3066</issn><issn pub-type="epub">3042-3066</issn><publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.48313/scodm.v3i2.55</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group><subject>Urban last mile logistics, Vehicle routing problem, Roaming delivery locations, Vehicle routing problem with delivery options, Attended home delivery, Shared delivery locations.</subject></subj-group>
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        <article-title>Vehicle Routing Problem with Delivery Options and Roaming Delivery Locations</article-title><subtitle>Vehicle Routing Problem with Delivery Options and Roaming Delivery Locations</subtitle></title-group>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Delavar Pasikhani</surname>
		<given-names>Narges </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname> Akbari Jokar</surname>
		<given-names>Mohammad Reza </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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      <volume>3</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
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        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p></license>
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			This study examines a variation of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) that incorporates roaming delivery locations and flexible delivery options. In this model, each customer may be served at one of several potential locations, including Shared Delivery Centers (SDC) that provide centralized access to packages. To simultaneously optimize route planning, delivery location selection, and service timing while accounting for shared center limitations, vehicle capacity, and time windows, a mixed-integer linear programming formulation is proposed. The model is evaluated against a baseline scenario in which each customer has a single fixed delivery point. Computational results from a numerical example demonstrate that enabling roaming and flexible delivery can significantly improve efficiency by reducing vehicle usage, maintaining full customer coverage without increasing waiting times, and cutting total costs by more than 40%. These findings highlight practical strategies for optimizing urban distribution and emphasize the operational advantages of offering delivery choices in last-mile logistics.
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