A Stable Matching based Crowd Logistics for The Parcel Delivery in Cities

With the fast development of information technologies, online shopping has become a particularly common consuming phenomenon, leading to a surge requirement in parcel delivery. How to decrease the delivery cost and increase delivery efficiency are the main concerns of express companies, and attracting a lot of researches. The paper proposes a novel stable matching based crowd logistics method for using crowd delivery capability to realize the sharing idea in parcel delivery. First, the framework is introduced to describe the primary design idea of crowd logistics. Next, the preference calculation model between the delivery demander (DD) and the delivery provider (DP) is defined as the input of the stable matching model. Then, the stable matching based crowd logistics model is constructed. Next, a small scale case is studied to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method, and large scale cases are tests to prove the potential for solving large scale problems.