Doing in One Go: Delivery Time Inference Based on Couriers' Trajectories

Sijie Ruan, Zi Xiong, Cheng Long, Yiheng Chen, Jie Bao, Tianfu He, Ruiyuan Li, Shengnan Wu, Zhongyuan Jiang, Yu Zheng

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Abstract

The rapid development of e-commerce requires efficient and reliable logistics services. Nowadays, couriers are still the main solution to address the "last mile" problem in logistics. They are usually required to record the accurate delivery time of each parcel manually, which provides vital information for applications like delivery insurances, delivery performance evaluations, and customer available time discovery. Couriers' trajectories generated by their PDAs provide a chance to infer the delivery time automatically to ease the burdens on the couriers. However, directly using the nearest stay point to infer the delivery time is under satisfactory due to two challenges: 1) inaccurate delivery locations, and 2) various stay scenarios. To this end, we propose Delivery Time Inference (DTInf), to automatically infer the delivery time of waybills based on couriers' trajectories. Our solution is composed of three steps: 1) Data Pre-processing, which detects stay points from trajectories, and separates stay points and waybills by delivery trips, 2) Delivery Location Correction, which infers true delivery locations of waybills by mining historical deliveries, and 3) Delivery Event-based Matching, which selects the best-matched stay point for waybills in the same delivery location to infer the delivery time. Extensive experiments and case studies based on large scale real-world waybill and trajectory data from JD Logistics confirm the effectiveness of our approach. Finally, we introduce a system based on DTInf, which is deployed and used internally in JD Logistics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKDD 2020 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages2813-2821
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450379984
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Aug 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 23 Aug 202027 Aug 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Conference

Conference26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period23/08/2027/08/20

Keywords

  • trajectory annotation
  • trajectory data mining
  • urban computing

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