Forty years of periodic vehicle routing

AM Campbell, JH Wilson - Networks, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
The periodic vehicle routing problem (PVRP) first appeared in 1974 in a paper about
garbage collection (Beltrami and Bodin, Networks 4 (1974), 65–74). The wide applicability …

Heuristics for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems: A survey and synthesis

T Vidal, TG Crainic, M Gendreau, C Prins - European Journal of …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The attributes of vehicle routing problems are additional characteristics or constraints that
aim to better take into account the specificities of real applications. The variants thus formed …

Parallel computational optimization in operations research: A new integrative framework, literature review and research directions

G Schryen - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Solving optimization problems with parallel algorithms has a long tradition in OR. Its future
relevance for solving hard optimization problems in many fields, including finance, logistics …

A clustering-based extended genetic algorithm for the multidepot vehicle routing problem with time windows and three-dimensional loading constraints

Y Wang, Y Wei, X Wang, Z Wang, H Wang - Applied Soft Computing, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Since the multidepot vehicle routing problem with time windows and three-dimensional
loading constraints (MDVRPTW-TDLC) is a multiconstraint and combinatorial optimization …

From managing urban freight to smart city logistics networks

T Bektas, TG Crainic, T Van Woensel - 2015‏ - eprints.soton.ac.uk
We present City Logistics by taking a systemic view, describing its main components and
elements, as an emerging field of study with wide and significant social and economic …

A variable neighborhood search-based algorithm with adaptive local search for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and multi-depots aiming for vehicle …

SN Bezerra, MJF Souza, SR de Souza - Computers & Operations Research, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This article addresses the Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows with the
minimization of the number of used vehicles, denominated as MDVRPTW*. This problem is …

An adaptive large-neighborhood search heuristic for a multi-period vehicle routing problem

I Dayarian, TG Crainic, M Gendreau, W Rei - Transportation Research Part …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
This problem involves optimizing product collection and redistribution from production
locations to a set of processing plants over a planning horizon. This horizon consists of …

Combining statistical learning with metaheuristics for the multi-depot vehicle routing problem with market segmentation

L Calvet, A Ferrer, MI Gomes, AA Juan… - Computers & Industrial …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
In real-life logistics and distribution activities it is usual to face situations in which the
distribution of goods has to be made from multiple warehouses or depots to the final …

Chapter 9: Four variants of the vehicle routing problem

S Irnich, M Schneider, D Vigo - Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods, and …, 2014‏ - SIAM
Vehicle Routing : Chapter 9: Four Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem Page 1 Chapter 9
Four Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem Stefan Irnich Michael Schneider Daniele Vigo 9.1 …

PILS: exploring high-order neighborhoods by pattern mining and injection

F Arnold, Í Santana, K Sörensen, T Vidal - Pattern Recognition, 2021‏ - Elsevier
We introduce pattern injection local search (PILS), an optimization strategy that uses pattern
mining to explore high-order local-search neighborhoods, and illustrate its application on …