The paper “Dispatch or Hold? An Offline Learning and Online Optimization Approach for On-Demand Delivery” by Yihua Wang, Long He, Zhengling Qi, and Stefan Minner was selected as a runner-up in the first INFORMS TSL Data-Driven Research Challenge at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025.
The research challenge was jointly organized by TSL and Meituan, a leading platform providing location-based services across entertainment, dining, delivery, travel, and more. This challenge aims to foster data-driven research on real-world logistics challenges by providing researchers worldwide access to Meituan’s operational food delivery data.