Publisher Summary This chapter discusses various aspects of maritime transportation
operations and presents associated decision-making problems and models with an …

Among the many extensions of the classical capacitated vehicle routing problem, multi-
compartment vehicle routing problems have been studied extensively only in recent years …

This paper is the second part of a comprehensive survey on routing problems involving
pickups and deliveries. Basically, two problem classes can be distinguished. The first part …

The objective of this paper is to review the current status of ship routing and scheduling. We
focus on literature published during the last decade. Because routing and scheduling …

Distributors are faced with loading constraints in their route planning, eg, multi-dimensional
packing constraints, unloading sequence constraints, stability constraints and axle weight …

We consider difficult combinatorial optimization problems arising in transportation logistics
when one is interested in optimizing both the routing of vehicles and the loading of goods …

In this paper, we introduce a multi-compartment vehicle routing problem with time window
(MCVRPTW) arising from urban distribution, which essentially reflects the “last mile” delivery …

This paper formulates a model for finding a minimum cost routing in a network for a
heterogeneous fleet of ships engaged in pickup and delivery of several liquid bulk products …

This paper considers a real ship scheduling problem that can be considered as a multi-ship
pickup and delivery problem with soft time windows (m-PDPSTW). The motivation for …

We introduce, model and solve to optimality a rich multi-product, multi-period and multi-
compartment vehicle routing problem with a required compartment cleaning activity. This …