Collaborative vehicle routing of multiple logistics providers is an important component of
horizontal logistic collaboration that generates economic and societal benefits. Existing …

This study focuses on the collaborative multicenter vehicle routing problem with time
windows and mixed deliveries and pickups (CMVRPTWMDP), which is a variant of the …

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) has become a crucial industrial issue for its impact on
product distribution costs. Though quite important in practice, the time-constrained version of …

The collaborative vehicle routing problem for logistic optimization is a fundamental part of
the sustainable supply chain, and has increasingly been of concern in recent years. This …

In light of the existing practical applications of the two-dimensional loading on vehicle
scheduling and many-to-many supply-demand relationships between suppliers and …

Collaboration among logistics operators offers an effective way to improve customer service
and freight transportation efficiency. One form of collaboration is the sharing of logistics …

Shared depot resources, which allow the route of a vehicle to start from a depot and end at
any one of the depot sets, can potentially reduce delivery distance and fuel consumption …

This paper presents a novel three-phase heuristic/algorithmic approach for the multi-depot
routing problem with time windows and heterogeneous vehicles. It has been derived from …

The adoption of collaboration strategies among logistics facilities and the formation of one or
multiple coalitions constitute a sustainable approach to vehicle routing network optimization …

In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art survey on the vehicle routing problem with
multiple depots (MDVRP). Our review considered papers published between 1988 and …