The scheduling of deliveries and the routing of vehicles are of great importance for supply
chain operations, as both determine to a great extent the distribution costs, as well as …

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 …

This is not so much a foreword as a testimonial. As I embarked on the pleasant journey of
reading through the chapters of this book, I became convinced that this is one of the best …

Unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones, have emerged as a promising mode of
fast, energy-efficient, and cost-effective package delivery. A considerable number of works …

The coordination of just-in-time production and transportation in a network of partially
independent facilities to guarantee timely delivery to distributed customers is one of the most …

It is observed that the separated design of location for depots and routing for servicing
customers often reach a suboptimal solution. So, solving location and routing problem …

Distribution of finished goods from depots to predetermined customers and collection of
goods and wastes are practical and challengeable optimization and logistics problems; …

We identify 135 articles published in scholarly, academic journals from January 2005 to
June 2022 that survey various aspects of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) ranging from …

High competition in today's global market has forced the organisations to invest in and focus
on their logistics system. Logistics is a business planning framework for the management of …

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is one of the challenging problems in optimization and
can be described as combinatorial optimization and NP-hard problem. Researchers have …