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 …

Various challenges and opportunities are recognized by increasing the penetration of
distributed energy resources (DERs) in power systems. In this regard, the concept of virtual …

Nowadays organizations outsource transportation of goods or services to reduce cost which
leads to a particular type of problem called open location-routing. Also, each logistic …

Numerous problems encountered in real life cannot be actually formulated as a single
objective problem; hence the requirement of Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) had arisen …

Multi echelon distribution systems have become more common in recent years. This paper
addresses the two echelon open location routing problem (2E-OLRP) which is a variant of …

Home healthcare aims to ensure that ill, disabled, and elderly patients receive high-quality,
personal, and compassionate care. The current study provides a novel hybrid three-phase …

Among new, innovative city logistics strategies, urban delivery consolidation has received
increasing academic and practical attention mostly in Europe and Japan. It is believed to …

We address a bus routing problem, where individuals need to be gathered from spatially
distributed pickup points and transported to a workplace. The problem is modeled as an …

On-time shipment delivery is critical for just-in-time production and quick response logistics.
Due to uncertainties in travel and service times, on-time arrival probability of vehicles at …