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 …

Cross-docking practice plays an important role in improving the efficiency of distribution
networks, especially, for optimizing supply chain operations. Moreover, transportation route …

This paper surveys the vehicle routing problems met in cities for good distribution. It applies
the following methodology. First, it gives an overview of the literature devoted to vehicle …

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 …

Cross-docking is a logistics strategy in which freight is unloaded from inbound vehicles and
(almost) directly loaded into outbound vehicles, with little or no storage in between. This …

This paper presents a survey of vehicle routing problems with multiple synchronization
constraints. These problems exhibit, in addition to the usual task covering constraints, further …

With the ongoing trend of mass-customization and an increasing product variety, just-in-time
part logistics more and more becomes one of the greatest challenges in today's automobile …

City logistics aims to reduce the nuisances associated to freight transportation in urban
areas while supporting their economic and social development. The fundamental idea is to …

1.1▪ Introduction A generic verbal definition of the family of vehicle routing problems can be
the following: Given: A set of transportation requests and a fleet of vehicles. The problem is …