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 …

A survey of variants and extensions of the location-routing problem

M Drexl, M Schneider - European journal of operational research, 2015 - Elsevier
This is a review of the literature on variants and extensions of the standard location-routing
problem published since the last survey, by Nagy and Salhi, appeared in 2006. We propose …

Traveling salesman problem with a drone station

S Kim, I Moon - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The importance of drone delivery services is increasing. However, the operational aspects of
drone delivery services have not been studied extensively. Specifically, with respect to truck …

OR problems related to Home Health Care: A review of relevant routing and scheduling problems

M Cissé, S Yalçındağ, Y Kergosien, E Şahin… - Operations research for …, 2017 - Elsevier
The home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP) consists of designing a
set of routes used by care workers to provide care to patients who live in the same …

Thirty years of inventory routing

LC Coelho, JF Cordeau, G Laporte - Transportation science, 2014 - pubsonline.informs.org
The inventory-routing problem (IRP) dates back 30 years. It can be described as the
combination of vehicle-routing and inventory management problems, in which a supplier …

Quantum computing based hybrid solution strategies for large-scale discrete-continuous optimization problems

A Ajagekar, T Humble, F You - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Quantum computing (QC) has gained popularity due to its unique capabilities that are quite
different from that of classical computers in terms of speed and methods of operations. This …

Rich vehicle routing problems: From a taxonomy to a definition

R Lahyani, M Khemakhem, F Semet - European Journal of Operational …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the last years, several variants of multi-constrained Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs)
have been studied, forming a class of problems known as Rich Vehicle Routing Problems …

A hybrid genetic algorithm for multidepot and periodic vehicle routing problems

T Vidal, TG Crainic, M Gendreau… - Operations …, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
We propose an algorithmic framework that successfully addresses three vehicle routing
problems: the multidepot VRP, the periodic VRP, and the multidepot periodic VRP with …

A hybrid genetic algorithm with adaptive diversity management for a large class of vehicle routing problems with time-windows

T Vidal, TG Crainic, M Gendreau, C Prins - Computers & operations …, 2013 - Elsevier
The paper presents an efficient Hybrid Genetic Search with Advanced Diversity Control for a
large class of time-constrained vehicle routing problems, introducing several new features to …

Heuristics for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems: A survey and synthesis

T Vidal, TG Crainic, M Gendreau, C Prins - European Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The attributes of vehicle routing problems are additional characteristics or constraints that
aim to better take into account the specificities of real applications. The variants thus formed …