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 …

Stochastic dynamic vehicle routing problems have become an essential part of logistics and
mobility services. In such problems, a sequence of vehicle routing decisions has to be made …

Dynamic routing of electric commercial vehicles can be a challenging problem since
besides the uncertainty of energy consumption there are also random customer requests …

Today, around 54% of the world's population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this share is
expected to go up significantly. As a result, city logistics, which focuses on the efficient and …

We determine the efficiency of a delivery system in which an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
provides service to customers while making return trips to a truck that is itself moving. In …

Many combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) encountered in real-world logistics,
transportation, production, healthcare, financial, telecommunication, and computing …

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 …

Abstract Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods,
models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This …

Since the late 70s, much research activity has taken place on the class of dynamic vehicle
routing problems (DVRP), with the time period after year 2000 witnessing a real explosion in …

Stimulated by the growing demand for logistics services and the advances in information
technologies, research interest in the dynamic vehicle routing problem with random requests …