The vehicle routing problem: State of the art classification and review

K Braekers, K Ramaekers… - Computers & industrial …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Exact branch-price-and-cut algorithms for vehicle routing

L Costa, C Contardo… - Transportation …, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are among the most studied problems in operations
research. Nowadays, the leading exact algorithms for solving many classes of VRPs are …

Research on the time-dependent split delivery green vehicle routing problem for fresh agricultural products with multiple time windows

D Wu, C Wu - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to the diversity and the different distribution conditions of agricultural products, split
delivery plays an important role in the last mile distribution of agricultural products …

Review of vehicle routing problems: Models, classification and solving algorithms

H Zhang, H Ge, J Yang, Y Tong - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2022 - Springer
With the rapid development of logistics industry, vehicle scheduling is the key to the
optimization of transportation links. Vehicle transportation route planning is becoming more …

Exact algorithms for electric vehicle-routing problems with time windows

G Desaulniers, F Errico, S Irnich… - Operations …, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
Effective route planning for battery electric commercial vehicle (ECV) fleets has to take into
account their limited autonomy and the possibility of visiting recharging stations during the …

The two-echelon capacitated electric vehicle routing problem with battery swap** stations: Formulation and efficient methodology

W Jie, J Yang, M Zhang, Y Huang - European Journal of Operational …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a two-echelon capacitated electric vehicle routing problem with
battery swap** stations (2E-EVRP-BSS), which aims to determine the delivery strategy …

A review on the electric vehicle routing problems: Variants and algorithms

H Qin, X Su, T Ren, Z Luo - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2021 - Springer
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 …

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 …

Synchronization in vehicle routing—a survey of VRPs with multiple synchronization constraints

M Drexl - Transportation Science, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper presents a survey of vehicle routing problems with multiple synchronization
constraints. These problems exhibit, in addition to the usual task covering constraints, further …

A taxonomy for task allocation problems with temporal and ordering constraints

E Nunes, M Manner, H Mitiche, M Gini - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Previous work on assigning tasks to robots has proposed extensive categorizations of
allocation of tasks with and without constraints. The main contribution of this paper is a …