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 …

Synchronized truck and drone routing in package delivery logistics

DN Das, R Sewani, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in delivery logistics has become an efficient
solution with the advancement of autonomous robotics. This paper proposes a novel …

Vehicle routing problem for urban freight transportation: A review of the recent literature

SP Gayialis, GD Konstantakopoulos… - Operational Research in …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a literature review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) for urban
freight transportation. After introducing the methodological approach followed for the review …

Electric vehicle routing problem with flexible deliveries

MEH Sadati, V Akbari, B Çatay - International Journal of Production …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Growing concerns about the climate change have forced governments to initiate tighter
environmental regulations and tougher emission reduction targets, increasing the interest on …

Collaborative multi-depot logistics network design with time window assignment

Y Wang, S Zhang, X Guan, S Peng, H Wang… - Expert Systems with …, 2020 - Elsevier
In logistics operation, delivery times are often uncertain for customers, and accommodating
this uncertainty poses operation challenges as well as extra cost for logistics service …

Composite particle algorithm for sustainable integrated dynamic ship routing and scheduling optimization

A De, VKR Mamanduru, A Gunasekaran… - Computers & Industrial …, 2016 - Elsevier
Ship routing and scheduling problem is considered to meet the demand for various products
in multiple ports within the planning horizon. The ports have restricted operating time, so …

A new bi-objective vehicle routing-scheduling problem with cross-docking: Mathematical model and algorithms

AH Goodarzi, R Tavakkoli-Moghaddam… - Computers & Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper addresses a vehicle routing problem with cross-docking (VRPCD) that considers
truck scheduling, splitting pickup and delivery orders with time-windows at supplier and …

Branch-and-price-and-cut for the synchronized vehicle routing problem with split delivery, proportional service time and multiple time windows

J Li, H Qin, R Baldacci, W Zhu - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study addresses a vehicle routing problem (VRP) in which demands are discrete, split
delivery is allowed, service time is proportional to the units of delivered products, multiple …

Stochastic vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous vehicles and multiple prioritized time windows: Mathematical modeling and solution approach

V Baradaran, A Shafaei, AH Hosseinian - Computers & Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study addresses the vehicle routing problem with multiple hard prioritized time windows
(VRPMPTW) with heterogeneous fleet of vehicles based on restrictions of a real-life …

Vehicle routing problem and its solution methodologies: a survey

R Goel, R Maini - International Journal of Logistics Systems …, 2017 - inderscienceonline.com
This paper presents survey of some of the recently employed solution methodologies in the
field of vehicle routing problem (VRP) and its variants. VRP and its variants are first briefly …