Electric vehicle routing problem: A systematic review and a new comprehensive model with nonlinear energy recharging and consumption

Y Xiao, Y Zhang, I Kaku, R Kang, X Pan - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electric vehicles (EVs) are witnessing a surge in demand and production for their
environmental benefits. This study reviews the development of electric vehicle routing …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on the electric vehicle routing problem: variants and solution approaches

T Erdelić, T Carić - Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019 - hindawi.com
In order to ensure high-quality and on-time delivery in logistic distribution processes, it is
necessary to efficiently manage the delivery fleet. Nowadays, due to the new policies and …

Deep reinforcement learning for solving the heterogeneous capacitated vehicle routing problem

J Li, Y Ma, R Gao, Z Cao, A Lim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based methods for solving the capacitated
vehicle routing problem (CVRP) intrinsically cope with a homogeneous vehicle fleet, in …

The electric fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem with time windows and recharging stations

G Hiermann, J Puchinger, S Ropke, RF Hartl - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to new regulations and further technological progress in the field of electric vehicles, the
research community faces the new challenge of incorporating the electric energy based …

Rich vehicle routing problem: Survey

J Caceres-Cruz, P Arias, D Guimarans… - ACM Computing …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a well-known research line in the optimization
research community. Its different basic variants have been widely explored in the literature …

The heterogeneous green vehicle routing and scheduling problem with time-varying traffic congestion

Y Xiao, A Konak - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Thirty years of heterogeneous vehicle routing

Ç Koç, T Bektaş, O Jabali, G Laporte - European Journal of Operational …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

A novel reinforcement learning-based hyper-heuristic for heterogeneous vehicle routing problem

W Qin, Z Zhuang, Z Huang, H Huang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates a practical heterogeneous vehicle routing problem that involves
routing a predefined fleet with different vehicle capacities to serve a series of customers to …

A unified solution framework for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems

T Vidal, TG Crainic, M Gendreau, C Prins - European Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Vehicle routing attributes are extra characteristics and decisions that complement the
academic problem formulations and aim to properly account for real-life application needs …

The fleet size and mix pollution-routing problem

Ç Koç, T Bektaş, O Jabali, G Laporte - Transportation Research Part B …, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …