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hazardous material is defined as any substance or material capable of causing harm to …

Research on dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing problems received increasing interest
in the last decade. It considers a novel problem class, aiming at an appropriate handling of …

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Pickup and delivery problems constitute an important class of vehicle routing problems in
which objects or people have to be collected and distributed. This paper introduces a …

Large-scale sudden natural disasters will lead to a large number of casualties and economic
losses. The allocation of emergency materials is of vital significance for saving lives and …

This paper studies the problem of finding a priori shortest paths to guarantee a given
likelihood of arriving on-time in a stochastic network. Such “reliable” paths help travelers …

This paper examines the value of real-time traffic information to optimal vehicle routing in a
nonstationary stochastic network. We present a systematic approach to aid in the …

We study optimal routing policy problems in stochastic time-dependent networks, where link
travel times are modeled as random variables with time-dependent distributions. These are …

This paper examines how real-time information gathered as part of intelligent transportation
systems can be used to predict link travel times for one through five time periods ahead (of 5 …

With the advent of route guidance systems (RGS), the prediction of short-term link travel
times has become increasingly important. For RGS to be successful, the calculated routes …