Pickup and delivery with split loads

M Nowak, Ö Ergun, CC White III - Transportation science, 2008 - pubsonline.informs.org
Splitting loads such that the delivery of certain loads is completed in multiple trips rather than
one trip results in opportunities for a reduction in cost and the number of vehicles used …

An exact solution framework for a broad class of vehicle routing problems

R Baldacci, E Bartolini, A Mingozzi… - Computational …, 2010 - Springer
This paper presents an exact solution framework for solving some variants of the vehicle
routing problem (VRP) that can be modeled as set partitioning (SP) problems with additional …

A hybrid algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with pickup and delivery and three-dimensional loading constraints

D Männel, A Bortfeldt - European Journal of Operational Research, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we extend the classical Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) to an integrated
routing and three-dimensional loading problem, called PDP with three-dimensional loading …

A population-based metaheuristic for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows and LIFO loading

M Cherkesly, G Desaulniers, G Laporte - Computers & Operations …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we solve the pickup and delivery problem with time windows and last-in-first-
out (LIFO) loading. LIFO loading minimizes handling while unloading items from the vehicle …

Exact algorithms for the multi-pickup and delivery problem with time windows

I Aziez, JF Côté, LC Coelho - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
In the multi-pickup and delivery problem with time windows (MPDPTW) a set of vehicles
must be routed to satisfy a set of client requests between given origins and destinations. A …

Transformer-based reinforcement learning for pickup and delivery problems with late penalties

K Zhang, X Lin, M Li - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pickup and delivery problems with late penalties can be adopted to model a wide range of
practical situations in the field of transportation and logistics. However, the restrictions on the …

Moving products between location pairs: Cross-docking versus direct-shipping

AI Nikolopoulou, PP Repoussis, CD Tarantilis… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This work considers the problem of satisfying transportation requests from a set of suppliers
to a set of customers. Each request calls for moving products between a pick-up and a …

The pickup and delivery problem with time windows and scheduled lines

V Ghilas, E Demir, T Van Woensel - INFOR: Information Systems …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Integrating freight flows with scheduled public transportation services creates attractive
business opportunities as the same transportation needs can be met with fewer operating …

The heterogeneous pickup and delivery problem with configurable vehicle capacity

Y Qu, JF Bard - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2013 - Elsevier
Various forms of the pickup and delivery problem (PDP) have been studied extensively over
the past decades. This paper introduces a new version of the heterogeneous PDP in which …

Towards delivery-as-a-service: Effective neighborhood search strategies for integrated delivery optimization of E-commerce and static O2O parcels

Y Wang, L Lei, D Zhang, LH Lee - Transportation Research Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate a new variant of last-mile delivery that integrates the scheduling
of static E-commerce parcels and Online-to-Offline (O2O) parcels. The O2O parcels, such as …