This paper surveys the research on the metaheuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem with
Time Windows (VRPTW). The VRPTW can be described as the problem of designing least …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses some of the most important vehicle routing
problem types. The vehicle routing problem lies at the heart of distribution management. It is …

Constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) are challenging because of the
difficulty in handling both multiple objectives and constraints. While some evolutionary …

Considering economic, environmental and social impacts, this paper presents a new
sustainable closed-loop location-routing-inventory model under mixed uncertainty. The …

Problems with multiple objectives arise in a natural fashion in most disciplines and their
solution has been a challenge to researchers for a long time. Despite the considerable …

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) calls for the determination of the optimal set of routes to
be performed by a fleet of vehicles to serve a given set of customers, and it is one of the most …

In this paper, we have conducted a literature review on the recent developments and
publications involving the vehicle routing problem and its variants, namely vehicle routing …

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) plays a central role in the optimization of distribution
networks. Since some classical instances with 75 nodes resist the best exact solution …

This study considers the application of a genetic algorithm (GA) to the basic vehicle routing
problem (VRP), in which customers of known demand are supplied from a single depot …

This paper presents a unified tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time
windows and for two important generalizations: the periodic and the multi-depot vehicle …