Publisher Summary Time constrained routing and scheduling problems are encountered in
a variety of industrial and service sector applications, ranging from logistics and …

We have witnessed recently the development of a fast growing body of research focused on
vehicle routing and scheduling problem structures with time window constraints. It is the aim …

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) calls for the determination of the optimal set of routes to
be performed by a fleet of vehicles to serve a given set of customers, and it is one of the most …

The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is a generalization of the vehicle
routing problem where the service of a customer can begin within the time window defined …

The time dependent vehicle routing problem (TDVRP) is defined as follows. A vehicle fleet of
fixed capacities serves customers of fixed demands from a central depot. Customers are …

The vehicle routing problem (vrp) involves the design of a set of minimum cost routes for a
fleet of vehicles which services exactly once a set of customers with known demands. The …

1.1 Introduction The last decades have seen an increasing utilization of optimization
packages, based on Operations Research and Mathematical Programming techniques, for …

In this paper we review the exact algorithms based on the branch and bound approach
proposed in the last years for the solution of the basic version of the vehicle routing problem …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes vehicle routing problem (VRP) as the problem of
designing optimal delivery routes from one or more depots to a set of geographically …

This paper evaluates and compares strategies for routing a manual picker through a simple
warehouse. It expands on previous work, in which optimization algorithms were developed …