Heuristics for vehicle routing problems: Sequence or set optimization?

TAM Toffolo, T Vidal, T Wauters - Computers & operations research, 2019 - Elsevier
short routes with up to 15 or 20 visits. For such small problems, even simple neighborhood
search methods for the TSP tend to produce optimal … with smallest average route cardinality, …

New enhancements for the exact solution of the vehicle routing problem with time windows

D Pecin, C Contardo, G Desaulniers… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
… corresponds to an elementary shortest path problem. Finally, … 1) minimizes the overall cost
of the selected routes. Constraints … , we chose to limit the cardinality of C to a maximum size (…

A compositional algorithm for the conflict-free electric vehicle routing problem

SF Roselli, PL Götvall, M Fabian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
optimization problem of designing routes for vehicles to visit … and Ramser, that searches for
optimal routes for a fleet of robots … In [9], a heuristic approach to solve the conflict-free routing

A special vehicle routing problem arising in the optimization of waste disposal: a real case

R Aringhieri, M Bruglieri, F Malucelli… - Transportation …, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
… the solution approach. We formalize the problem as a special … visited by a vehicle, tij is the
shortest distance from node i to … k and compute a maximum cardinality matching starting from …

MIMOA: A membrane-inspired multi-objective algorithm for green vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands

Y Niu, Y Zhang, Z Cao, K Gao, J Xiao, W Song… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2021 - Elsevier
… investigated, which aims to minimize total cost and customer … approach, that integrates
glowworm swarm optimization … be merged with the remaining shortest route. The motivation is that…

The min–max split delivery multi-depot vehicle routing problem with minimum service time requirement

X Wang, B Golden, E Wasil, R Zhang - Computers & Operations Research, 2016 - Elsevier
… among vehicles as long as each vehicle spends a minimum … The objective is to minimize
the duration of the longest route (… longest route that splits a customer with another shorter route

Shortest paths and networks

JSB Mitchell - Handbook of discrete and computational …, 2017 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Methods for finding L1-shortest paths generalize to the case … We consider now some other
network optimization problems, … ) for subsets of sites of any cardinality (not just 2 sites, as in …

The robust vehicle routing problem with time windows: Solution by branch and price and cut

D Lu, F Gzara - European Journal of Operational Research, 2019 - Elsevier
… has support defined by cardinality constrained sets. The … We adopt a robust optimization
approach where demand varies … is a robust elementary shortest path problem with resource …

[PDF][PDF] A solution method for the multi-destination bi-objectives shortest path problem

HB Ticha, N Absi, D Feillet… - Ecole des Mines de Saint …, 2017 - researchgate.net
… preprocessing for vehicle routing problems on road networks… multi-objective combinatorial
optimization problems. Given a … studied the cardinality of the set of Pareto-optimal solutions for …

A scenario decomposition algorithm for strategic time window assignment vehicle routing problems

A Subramanyam, A Wang, CE Gounaris - Transportation Research Part B …, 2018 - Elsevier
… as a two-stage stochastic optimization problem, where time … From an algorithmic viewpoint,
our approach can be easily … objective value of the corresponding optimal route sets (equal to …