Vehicle routing problems have been the focus of extensive research over the past sixty
years, driven by their economic importance and their theoretical interest. The diversity of …

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 …

Theoretical research and practical applications in the? eld of vehicle routing started in 1959
with the truck dispatching problem posed by Dantzig and Ramser [1]:? nd the “... optimum …

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a well-known research line in the optimization
research community. Its different basic variants have been widely explored in the literature …

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 …

This paper presents an overview of recent advances in the field of the vehicle routing
problem (VRP), based on papers published in high-quality journals during the period from …

In this paper, we study a rich vehicle routing problem incorporating various complexities
found in real-life applications. The General Vehicle Routing Problem (GVRP) is a combined …

Over the last years, several variants of multi-constrained Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs)
have been studied, forming a class of problems known as Rich Vehicle Routing Problems …

This paper presents a methodology for classifying the literature of the Vehicle Routing
Problem (VRP). VRP as a field of study and practice is defined quite broadly. It is considered …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses some of the most important vehicle routing
problem types. The vehicle routing problem lies at the heart of distribution management. It is …