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 …

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 …

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 …

It has been around 30 years since the heterogeneous vehicle routing problem was
introduced, and significant progress has since been made on this problem and its variants …

Vehicle routing attributes are extra characteristics and decisions that complement the
academic problem formulations and aim to properly account for real-life application needs …

The attributes of vehicle routing problems are additional characteristics or constraints that
aim to better take into account the specificities of real applications. The variants thus formed …

In this work we propose a hybrid algorithm for a class of Vehicle Routing Problems with
homogeneous fleet. A sequence of Set Partitioning (SP) models, with columns …

In this paper, a new variant of the electric vehicle routing problem is presented. Since
recharging time is commonly considered as idle time, the aim is to take advantage of it by …

The advantages of the cross-docking technique have been increasingly appreciated in
literature and in practice. This appreciation, coupled with the advances of numerous …