Coordinated Logistics with a Truck and a Drone

John Gunnar Carlsson
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Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
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Siyuan Song
Siyuan Song
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Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
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John Gunnar Carlsson

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John Gunnar Carlsson

[email protected]

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5346-8529

Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089

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Siyuan Song

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Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089

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Published Online:23 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2824

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Received:December 08, 2015
Accepted:March 16, 2017
Published Online:October 23, 2017

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John Gunnar Carlsson, Siyuan Song (2017) Coordinated Logistics with a Truck and a Drone. Management Science 64(9):4052-4069.

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