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With the rise of the sharing economy, customers’ motivations to participate has become a controversial phenomenon. The sharing economy has different industries that might itself be a reason for the emergence of different incentives in customers. Moreover, these industries can affect motivation by controlling various touchpoints Two dimensions, quantity and quality illustrate the impact of touchpoints The encounter of touchpoints with both of the provider and consumer side might confuse companies to choose the best composition of has been conducted to identify the importance of motives to use different industries of the sharing economy and examine the impact of the brands’ touchpoints . In... 

Transportation is an essential part of the economic growth in every country in the nowadays industrial era by making the possibility of good’s consuming, far from its origin. Delivery of a final product to the customer’s needs transportation of raw materials from suppliers to producers, transportation of semi-final products between companies, and, finally, delivery of the final product to customers and destination markets. Transportation costs include the majority of logistic expenses because of their abundance (between 30-60 percent). Traveling salesman problem and after that vehicle routing problem have been proposed about 70 years ago. In the last few decades, mathematical models, precise... 

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized extensively for many years, most of them in the military. But in recent years, the commercial applications particularly last-mile delivery to customers of these devices have also attracted much attention. In this research, we have used traditional vehicles or trucks next to UAVs to improve operations, and we intend to create optimal synchronization between the path of the truck and the UAV with each other. Trucks and UAVs can be separated from each other and serve customers independently and reconnect. Also, in order to be closer to the real world, there is a specified time window for each customer that it is necessary to deliver orders in...