Green Logistics has emerged as the new agenda item in supply chain management. The
traditional objective of distribution management has been upgraded to minimizing system …

The delivery of freight from its origin to its destination is often managed through one or more
intermediate facilities where storing, merging and consolidation activities are performed …

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 …

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) calls for the determination of the optimal set of routes to
be performed by a fleet of vehicles to serve a given set of customers, and it is one of the most …

The management of food distribution networks is receiving more and more attention, both in
practice and in the scientific literature. In this paper, we review quantitative operations …

This paper presents a survey of vehicle routing problems with multiple synchronization
constraints. These problems exhibit, in addition to the usual task covering constraints, further …

The purpose of this paper is to describe TABUROUTE, a new tabu search heuristic for the
vehicle routing problem with capacity and route length restrictions. The algorithm considers …

This paper is a survey of location-routing: a relatively new branch of locational analysis that
takes into account vehicle routing aspects. We propose a classification scheme and look at a …

This paper describes a tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with soft time
windows. In this problem, lateness at customer locations is allowed although a penalty is …

Metaheuristics are the most exciting development in approximate optimization techniques of
the last two decades. They have had widespread successes in attacking a variety of difficult …