Vehicle routing problems have been the focus of extensive research over the past sixty years, driven by their economic importance and their theoretical interest. The diversity of …
T Vidal - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The vehicle routing problem is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization topics, due to its practical importance and methodological interest. Yet, despite extensive …
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 use of drones for parcel delivery has recently attracted wide attention due to its potential in improving efficiency of the last-mile delivery. Though attempts have been made on …
B Pan, Z Zhang, A Lim - European Journal of Operational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …
QM Ha, Y Deville, QD Pham, MH Hà - Transportation Research Part C …, 2018 - Elsevier
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” …
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 …
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) …
C Prodhon, C Prins - European journal of operational research, 2014 - Elsevier
The design of distribution systems raises hard combinatorial optimization problems. For instance, facility location problems must be solved at the strategic decision level to place …