A taxonomic review of metaheuristic algorithms for solving the vehicle routing problem and its variants

R Elshaer, H Awad - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
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 vehicle routing problem: State of the art classification and review

K Braekers, K Ramaekers… - Computers & industrial …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Reinforcement learning for solving the vehicle routing problem

M Nazari, A Oroojlooy, L Snyder… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present an end-to-end framework for solving the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using
reinforcement learning. In this approach, we train a single policy model that finds near …

Thirty years of heterogeneous vehicle routing

Ç Koç, T Bektaş, O Jabali, G Laporte - European Journal of Operational …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Design and evaluation of a multi-trip delivery model with truck and drones

M Moshref-Javadi, S Lee, M Winkenbach - Transportation Research Part E …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract We extend the Traveling Repairman Problem (TRP) by assuming a single truck
which can stop at customer locations and launch drones multiple times from each stop …

Heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem based on fuel and carbon emissions

J Li, D Wang, J Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study an emission-based heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem
(E-HFFVRP) with considerations of fuel and carbon emissions. This problem involves …

A hybrid metaheuristic algorithm for heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery

M Avci, S Topaloglu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery (VRPSPD) is
a variant of the classical Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) where the vehicles serve a set of …

A hybrid algorithm for the heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem

A Subramanian, PHV Penna, E Uchoa… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem (HFVRP). The
HFVRP generalizes the classical Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem by considering the …

A tabu search heuristic for the heterogeneous vehicle routing problem on a multigraph

DSW Lai, OC Demirag, JMY Leung - Transportation Research Part E …, 2016 - Elsevier
We study a time-constrained heterogeneous vehicle routing problem on a multigraph where
parallel arcs between pairs of vertices represent different travel options based on criteria …

Multi-objective heterogeneous vehicle routing and scheduling problem with energy minimizing

SF Ghannadpour, A Zarrabi - Swarm and evolutionary computation, 2019 - Elsevier
A new model and solution for the multi-objective heterogeneous vehicle routing and
scheduling problem, with energy minimizing, is presented in this paper. The concept of …