Multi-vehicle routing problems with soft time windows: A multi-agent reinforcement learning approach

K Zhang, F He, Z Zhang, X Lin, M Li - Transportation Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-vehicle routing problem with soft time windows (MVRPSTW) is an indispensable
constituent in urban logistics distribution systems. Over the past decade, numerous methods …

Real-time deep reinforcement learning based vehicle navigation

S Koh, B Zhou, H Fang, P Yang, Z Yang, Q Yang… - Applied Soft …, 2020 - Elsevier
Traffic congestion has become one of the most serious contemporary city issues as it leads
to unnecessary high energy consumption, air pollution and extra traveling time. During the …

The vehicle routing problem: State of the art classification and review

K Braekers, K Ramaekers… - Computers & industrial …, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and its variants have grown ever
more popular in the academic literature. Yet, the problem characteristics and assumptions …

Deep reinforcement learning approach to solve dynamic vehicle routing problem with stochastic customers

W Joe, HC Lau - Proceedings of the international conference on …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
In real-world urban logistics operations, changes to the routes and tasks occur in response
to dynamic events. To ensure customers' demands are met, planners need to make these …

Rbg: Hierarchically solving large-scale routing problems in logistic systems via reinforcement learning

Z Zong, H Wang, J Wang, M Zheng, Y Li - Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The large-scale vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are defined based on the classical VRPs
with thousands of customers. It is an important optimization problem in modern logistic …

Learning collaborative policies to solve np-hard routing problems

M Kim, J Park - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) frameworks have shown potential for solving
NP-hard routing problems such as the traveling salesman problem (TSP) without problem …

Deep reinforcement learning for the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows

B Lin, B Ghaddar, J Nathwani - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past decade has seen a rapid penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) as more and more
logistics and transportation companies start to deploy electric vehicles (EVs) for service …

Deep reinforcement learning for transportation network combinatorial optimization: A survey

Q Wang, C Tang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Traveling salesman and vehicle routing problems with their variants, as classic
combinatorial optimization problems, have attracted considerable attention for decades of …

The vehicle routing problem: State-of-the-art classification and review

SY Tan, WC Yeh - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Transportation planning has been established as a key topic in the literature and social
production practices. An increasing number of researchers are studying vehicle routing …

Hybrid adaptive large neighborhood search for vehicle routing problems with depot location decisions

S Voigt, M Frank, P Fontaine, H Kuhn - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This article considers three variants of the vehicle routing problem (VRP). These variants
determine the respective depot locations from which customers are supplied, ie, the two …