Recently, a taxonomic review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature published
between 2009 and June 2015 stated that most of the surveyed articles use metaheuristics …

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 …

Over the past decades, the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and its variants have grown ever
more popular in the academic literature. Yet, the problem characteristics and assumptions …

Given the growing importance of service supply chain management (SSCM) in operations,
we review a selection of papers in the operations research and the management science …

Over the past decade, electric vehicles (EVs) have been considered in a growing number of
models and methods for vehicle routing problems (VRPs). This study presents a …

Home health care (HHC) companies serve as the alternative to hospitals aiming to provide
customers with medical care at home. A crucial challenge for HHC providers is to optimize …

The overall quality of last-mile delivery in terms of operational costs and customer
satisfaction is primarily affected by traditional logistics planning and the consideration and …

This paper investigates a novel drug distribution system for the epidemic situation by linking
two separate models. The improved SEIQR spread model and the multi-period vehicle …

Preventive maintenance scheduling has a significant influence on reliability and availability
of the assets by reason of avoiding inadvertent failures. Performing the maintenance …

Dial-a-ride services provide disabled and elderly people with a personalized mode of
transportation to preserve their mobility. Typically, several users with different pickup and …