Home health services arise from the need for hospitals to care for patients and/or dependent
persons who, due to special conditions, require hospitalisation and/or care at home. The …

In this paper, we present a survey on vehicle routing problems with multiple commodities. In
most routing problems, only one commodity is explicitly considered. This may be due to the …

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 …

Drone delivery is known as a potential contributor in improving efficiency and alleviating last-
mile delivery problems. For this reason, drone routing and scheduling has become a highly …

The trend toward shorter delivery lead times reduces operational efficiency and increases
transportation costs for Internet retailers. However, mobile technology creates new …

The accelerated movement of people towards cities led to the fact that the world's urban
population is now growing by 60-million persons per year. The increased number of cities' …

The use of electric vehicles (EVs) is becoming more and more widespread and the interest
in these vehicles is increasing each day. EVs promise to emit less air pollution and …

In vehicle routing problems (VRPs) the decisions to be taken concern the assignment of
customers to vehicles and the sequencing of the customers assigned to each vehicle …

Local search has been established as a successful cornerstone to tackle the Vehicle
Routing Problem, and is included in many state-of-the-art heuristics. In this paper we aim to …

Effective humanitarian relief operations are challenging in the aftermath of disasters, as
trucks are often faced with considerable travel time uncertainties due to damaged …