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Problem Statement and Metrics

Explore how to formulate a problem statement for estimating total food delivery time using order details and environmental factors. Understand designing offline and online metrics like RMSE and A/B testing to evaluate accuracy and customer impact. Learn requirements for high-throughput training pipelines and near real-time inference with low latency. This lesson prepares you to build scalable, accurate time estimation models that adapt to dynamic conditions.

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 ...