As energy overuse and generated pollution have a potential threat to our environmental and
ecological conditions, many researchers have taken the initiative way to join the green …

Recent decades have seen increasing utilization of optimization packages, based on
Operations Research and Mathematical Programming techniques, for effective management …

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 …

Road freight transportation is a major contributor to carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.
Reducing these emissions in transportation route planning requires an understanding of …

The green vehicle routing and scheduling problem (GVRSP) aims to minimize green-house
gas emissions in logistics systems through better planning of deliveries/pickups made by a …

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 …

Conventionally, vehicle routing problems are defined on a network in which the customer
locations and arcs are given. Typically, these arcs somehow represent the distances or …

To meet the demands of green logistics while considering the time-dependent effects
caused by traffic congestion, we establish a time-dependent green vehicle routing problem …

This paper introduces the fleet size and mix pollution-routing problem which extends the
pollution-routing problem by considering a heterogeneous vehicle fleet. The main objective …