Chapter 6: pickup-and-delivery problems for goods transportation

M Battarra, JF Cordeau, M Iori - Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods, and …, 2014 - SIAM
6.1▪ Introduction Pickup-and-Delivery Problems (PDPs) constitute an important family of
routing problems in which goods or passengers have to be transported from different origins …

The inventory-routing problem of returnable transport items with time windows and simultaneous pickup and delivery in closed-loop supply chains

G Iassinovskaia, S Limbourg, F Riane - International Journal of Production …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reducing environmental impact, related regulations and potential for operational benefits
are the main reasons why companies share their returnable transport items (RTIs) among …

Vehicle routing problems with loading constraints: state-of-the-art and future directions

H Pollaris, K Braekers, A Caris, GK Janssens… - Or Spectrum, 2015 - Springer
Distributors are faced with loading constraints in their route planning, eg, multi-dimensional
packing constraints, unloading sequence constraints, stability constraints and axle weight …

The last-mile delivery vehicle routing problem with handling cost in the front warehouse mode

Y Li, J Yang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper aims to investigate the vehicle routing problem faced by a logistics service
provider that performs the last-mile delivery of large household appliances under the front …

CiteSpace-based bibliometric review of pickup and delivery problem from 1995 to 2021

X Zang, Y Zhu, Y Zhong, T Chu - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we adopt the bibliometric analysis software CiteSpace to analyze the research
status quo and evolution trend of pickup and delivery problem (PDP), an important real …

Efficient neural neighborhood search for pickup and delivery problems

Y Ma, J Li, Z Cao, W Song, H Guo, Y Gong… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present an efficient Neural Neighborhood Search (N2S) approach for pickup and
delivery problems (PDPs). In specific, we design a powerful Synthesis Attention that allows …

Efficient neural collaborative search for pickup and delivery problems

D Kong, Y Ma, Z Cao, T Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce Neural Collaborative Search (NCS), a novel learning-based
framework for efficiently solving pickup and delivery problems (PDPs). NCS pioneers the …

A population-based metaheuristic for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows and LIFO loading

M Cherkesly, G Desaulniers, G Laporte - Computers & Operations …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we solve the pickup and delivery problem with time windows and last-in-first-
out (LIFO) loading. LIFO loading minimizes handling while unloading items from the vehicle …

The pickup and delivery traveling salesman problem with handling costs

M Veenstra, KJ Roodbergen, IFA Vis… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the pickup and delivery traveling salesman problem with handling
costs (PDTSPH). In the PDTSPH, a single vehicle has to transport loads from origins to …

A memetic algorithm for the green vehicle routing problem

B Peng, Y Zhang, Y Gajpal, X Chen - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
The green vehicle routing problem is a variation of the classic vehicle routing problem in
which the transportation fleet is composed of electric vehicles with limited autonomy in need …