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 …

We extend the multi-depot vehicle routing problem with time windows (MDVRPTW), a
practical and challenging problem in logistics and supply chain management, to a study of …

Vehicle Routing : Chapter 9: Four Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem Page 1 Chapter 9
Four Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem Stefan Irnich Michael Schneider Daniele Vigo 9.1 …

This paper develops a general heuristic algorithm to solve the selective and periodic
inventory routing problem (SPIRP) in a waste vegetable oil collection environment. In the …

The major metropolitan airports in Australia have become increasingly congested, resulting
in substantial increases in operational costs and waiting time at these airports. This paper …

Inventory management and satisfactory distribution are among the most important issues
considered by distribution companies. One of the key objectives is the simultaneous …

Vehicle routing is a key success factor in logistics problems. A variation of vehicle routing
problem (VRP), the heterogeneous fixed fleet VRP in which the vehicles available for …

To comprehensively understand the research progress of the fleet scheduling for hazardous
materials, the study has summarized the corresponding research results from three aspects …

The basic problem of vehicle routing is a classical operations research problem, known to
be NP-hard Leung et al., Eur J Op Res 225 (2): 199–210, 2013,[64] and called the vehicle …

We introduce the time constrained maximal covering salesman problem (TCMCSP) which is
the generalization of the covering salesman and orienting problems. In this problem, we are …