The scheduling of deliveries and the routing of vehicles are of great importance for supply
chain operations, as both determine to a great extent the distribution costs, as well as …

Recently, a taxonomic review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature published
between 2009 and June 2015 stated that most of the surveyed articles use metaheuristics …

The cooperation of trucks and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has become a new delivery
method in the area of logistics and transportation. In this form of cooperation, the trucks are …

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 …

In this study, we investigate a routing problem in urban transportation which considers time-
dependent travel time, multiple trips per vehicle, and loading time at the depot …

Over the past few years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as drones, have been
adopted as part of a new logistic method in the commercial sector called “last-mile delivery” …

The grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is a novel type of swarm intelligence optimization algorithm.
An improved grey wolf optimizer (IGWO) with evolution and elimination mechanism was …

In this paper, we propose the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and
Mixed Fleet (E-VRPTWMF) to optimize the routing of a mixed fleet of electric commercial …

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 …

Due to new regulations and further technological progress in the field of electric vehicles, the
research community faces the new challenge of incorporating the electric energy based …