With the rapid development of trade globalization, transportation plays
a critical role in global trade, and outsourcing transportation has
become a common practice in the modern logistics industry. This book
solved two problems in the modern logistics industry, which helped
shippers save transportation costs and helped O2O takeout platforms
improve decisions. This book studies two classes of decision-making
optimization problems widely concerned in the modern logistics industry:
transportation service procurement problems and online-to-offline food
pickup and delivery problems.