A stochastic vehicle routing problem with travel time uncertainty: trade-off between cost and customer service

J Zhang, WHK Lam, BY Chen - Networks and Spatial Economics, 2013 - Springer
On-time shipment delivery is critical for just-in-time production and quick response logistics.
Due to uncertainties in travel and service times, on-time arrival probability of vehicles at …

Vehicle routing problems with time windows and stochastic travel and service times: Models and algorithm

X Li, P Tian, SCH Leung - International Journal of Production Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper studies a version of stochastic vehicle routing problems, in which travel and
service times are stochastic, and a time window constraint is associated with each customer …

On-time delivery probabilistic models for the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands and time windows

J Zhang, WHK Lam, BY Chen - European Journal of Operational Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Increasing attention is given to on-time delivery of goods in the distribution and logistics
industry. Due to uncertainties in customer demands, on-time deliveries cannot be ensured …

A vehicle routing problem with time windows and stochastic demands

MS Chang - Journal of the Chinese institute of engineers, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This study presents an approach for considering a vehicle routing problem where customers'
pickup demands are uncertain and require serving within some settled time windows …

Stochastic vehicle routing with modified savings algorithm

M Dror, P Trudeau - European Journal of Operational Research, 1986 - Elsevier
A stochastic vehicle routing problem (SVRP) differs from the well known vehicle routing
problem (VRP) in that the actual customer demand is not known with certainty when the …

Chapter 8: Stochastic vehicle routing problems

M Gendreau, O Jabali, W Rei - Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods, and …, 2014 - SIAM
8.1▪ Introduction Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) have been the subject of numerous
research studies since Dantzig and Ramser [16] first presented this general class of …

Vehicle routing problem with stochastic travel times including soft time windows and service costs

D Taş, N Dellaert, T Van Woensel, T De Kok - Computers & Operations …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper studies a vehicle routing problem with soft time windows and stochastic travel
times. A model is developed that considers both transportation costs (total distance traveled …

Stochastic vehicle routing

M Gendreau, G Laporte, R Séguin - European journal of operational …, 1996 - Elsevier
Stochastic vehicle routing Page 1 ELSEVIER European Journal of Operational Research 88
(1996) 3-12 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH Invited Review …

Stochastic vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous vehicles and multiple prioritized time windows: Mathematical modeling and solution approach

V Baradaran, A Shafaei, AH Hosseinian - Computers & Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study addresses the vehicle routing problem with multiple hard prioritized time windows
(VRPMPTW) with heterogeneous fleet of vehicles based on restrictions of a real-life …

[HTML][HTML] The stochastic vehicle routing problem, a literature review, part II: solution methods

J Oyola, H Arntzen, DL Woodruff - EURO Journal on Transportation and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Building on the work of Gendreau et al.(Oper Res 44 (3): 469–477, 1996), and
complementing the first part of this survey, we review the solution methods used for the past …