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 is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization topics,
due to its practical importance and methodological interest. Yet, despite extensive …

In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art survey on the vehicle routing problem with
multiple depots (MDVRP). Our review considered papers published between 1988 and …

The recent research on the CVRP is being slowed down by the lack of a good set of
benchmark instances. The existing sets suffer from at least one of the following drawbacks:(i) …

In the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery (VRPSPD), goods
have to be transported from different origins to different destinations, and each customer has …

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 capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) is a classical combinatorial optimization
problem, which has received much attention due to its main challenges as distribution …

We introduce an electric vehicle routing problem combining conventional, plug-in hybrid,
and electric vehicles. Electric vehicles are constrained in their service range by their battery …

This paper studies the green vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery
(G-VRPSPD). It aims to minimize fuel consumption costs while satisfying customer pickup …