A concise guide to existing and emerging vehicle routing problem variants

T Vidal, G Laporte, P Matl - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Vehicle routing problems have been the focus of extensive research over the past sixty
years, driven by their economic importance and their theoretical interest. The diversity of …

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 on dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing problems

U Ritzinger, J Puchinger, RF Hartl - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Modeling a green inventory routing problem for perishable products with horizontal collaboration

M Soysal, JM Bloemhof-Ruwaard, R Haijema… - Computers & Operations …, 2018 - Elsevier
Increasing concerns on energy use, emissions and food waste requires advanced models
for food logistics management. Our interest in this study is to analyse the benefits of …

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 …

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 …

Recent challenges in Routing and Inventory Routing: E‐commerce and last‐mile delivery

C Archetti, L Bertazzi - Networks, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the e‐commerce era, vendors have to satisfy a large number of on‐line orders, mainly
from private customers, with low weight and volume, reduced delivery time, and overlap of …

Modeling an inventory routing problem for perishable products with environmental considerations and demand uncertainty

M Soysal, JM Bloemhof-Ruwaard, R Haijema… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The transition to sustainable food supply chain management has brought new key logistical
aims such as reducing food waste and environmental impacts of operations in the supply …

Objectives and methods in multi-objective routing problems: a survey and classification scheme

S Zajac, S Huber - European Journal of Operational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Transportation of goods and passengers plays an important role for companies and
individuals in today's globalized world. There exists a variety of road-based routing …

The production routing problem: A review of formulations and solution algorithms

Y Adulyasak, JF Cordeau, R Jans - Computers & Operations Research, 2015 - Elsevier
The production routing problem (PRP) combines the lot-sizing problem and the vehicle
routing problem, two classical problems that have been extensively studied for more than …