Yubin Liu

Performance optimisations for urban last-mile distribution using autonomous vehicle fleets

Research

Yubin’s thesis optimised last-mile urban distribution with autonomous vehicle fleets, including location-routing and route planning for mobile parcel lockers and robot-assisted delivery.

Education

2020 – 2024PhD
Imperial College London

Awards and fellowships

2023Best Research Paper Award
102nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

Publications

Route planning for last-mile deliveries using mobile parcel lockers: A hybrid q-learning network approach(2023, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review)
Quantifying the Capability of Autonomous Robot-Assisted Distribution in Last-Mile: Insight from Rural to Urban Configurations(2023, 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC))
A game-theoretic and machine learning approach for modelling customer service selection in autonomous last-mile delivery(2026, Expert Systems with Applications)
Location-routing Optimisation for Urban Logistics Using Mobile Parcel Locker Based on Hybrid Q-Learning Algorithm(2021, arXiv)