Green Logistics has emerged as the new agenda item in supply chain management. The
traditional objective of distribution management has been upgraded to minimizing system …

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 pickup and delivery problem with time windows is the problem of serving a number of
transportation requests using a limited amount of vehicles. Each request involves moving a …

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 …

This paper is the first part of a comprehensive survey on pickup and delivery problems.
Basically, two problem classes can be distinguished. The first class, discussed in this paper …

Recently, there is an emerging trend to apply deep reinforcement learning to solve the
vehicle routing problem (VRP), where a learnt policy governs the selection of next node for …

Major advances were recently obtained in the exact solution of vehicle routing problems
(VRPs). Sophisticated branch-cut-and-price (BCP) algorithms for some of the most classical …

This paper addresses a vehicle scheduling problem encountered in home health care
logistics. It concerns the delivery of drugs and medical devices from the home care …

In this paper, we analyze the route efficiency trade-offs that emerge from combining first-mile
pickup and last-mile delivery operations in an urban distribution system. We build on the …

Online retailers and food delivery platforms are exploring last-mile package and food
delivery using drones to reduce delivery time and improve customer experience. We …