Vehicle routing with backhauls: Review and research perspectives

Ç Koç, G Laporte - Computers & Operations Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls (VRPB), the customer set is
partitioned into linehaul customers who require deliveries, and backhaul customers who …

A survey on pickup and delivery problems: Part II: Transportation between pickup and delivery locations

SN Parragh, KF Doerner, RF Hartl - Journal für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008 - Springer
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 …

Static pickup and delivery problems: a classification scheme and survey

G Berbeglia, JF Cordeau, I Gribkovskaia, G Laporte - Top, 2007 - Springer
Pickup and delivery problems constitute an important class of vehicle routing problems in
which objects or people have to be collected and distributed. This paper introduces a …

A unified heuristic for a large class of vehicle routing problems with backhauls

S Ropke, D Pisinger - European Journal of Operational Research, 2006 - Elsevier
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls is a generalization of the ordinary capacitated
vehicle routing problem where goods are delivered from the depot to the linehaul customers …

Chapter 1: The family of vehicle routing problems

S Irnich, P Toth, D Vigo - Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods, and …, 2014 - SIAM
1.1▪ Introduction A generic verbal definition of the family of vehicle routing problems can be
the following: Given: A set of transportation requests and a fleet of vehicles. The problem is …

The vehicle routing problem with backhauls towards a sustainability perspective: A review

MJ Santos, P Amorim, A Marques, A Carvalho, A Póvoa - Top, 2020 - Springer
The vehicle routing problem with backhauls (VRPB) allows to integrate inbound and
outbound routes, which is an efficient strategy to reduce routing costs and also to reduce the …

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 …

Heuristic algorithms for the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-up and delivery

N Bianchessi, G Righini - Computers & Operations Research, 2007 - Elsevier
The vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-up and delivery is the problem of
optimally integrating goods distribution and waste collection, when no precedence …

A branch-and-price approach to the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous distribution and collection

M Dell'Amico, G Righini, M Salani - Transportation science, 2006 - pubsonline.informs.org
The vehicle routing problem with simultaneous distribution and collection (VRPSDC) is the
variation of the capacitated vehicle routing problem that arises when the distribution of …

A diversity-enhanced memetic algorithm for solving electric vehicle routing problems with time windows and mixed backhauls

J **ao, J Du, Z Cao, X Zhang, Y Niu - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
The electric vehicle routing problem (EVRP) has been studied increasingly because of
environmental concerns. However, existing studies on the EVRP mainly focus on time …