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Problem Statement and Metrics

Problem Statement and Metrics

Let’s dive deeper into the problem statement and metrics required for the food delivery system.

Estimate Delivery Time

1. Problem statement

Build a model to estimate the total delivery time given order details (e.g. order size, restaurant location, customer location), market conditions (e.g. weather, events, holidays), and real-time traffic status (e.g. road closures, congestion levels).

Food Delivery flow
Food Delivery flow

To keep it simple, we do not consider batching (group multiple orders at restaurants) in this exercise.

DeliveryTime=PickupTime+Point_to_PointTime+Drop_off_TimeDelivery Time = Pickup Time + Point\_to\_Point Time + Drop\_off\_Time ...