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 …

An electric vehicle‐routing problem (EVRP) is developed to settle some operation
distribution troubles such as battery energy limitations and difficulties in finding charging …

In recent years, we have witnessed a growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a
variety of civil, commercial and military applications. Among these applications, many …

As a novel evolutionary searching technique, ant colony optimization (ACO) has gained
wide research attention and can be used as a tool for optimizing an array of mathematical …

Freight transportation activities could potentially lead to detrimental effects on the natural
and built environments and pose health risks. The importance of the present study is to …

An electric vehicle routing problem with charging time and variable travel time is developed
to address some operational issues such as range limitation and charging demand. The …

Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are essential in logistics. In the literature, many exact and
heuristic optimization algorithms have been proposed to solve the VRPs. These traditional …

This paper presents survey of some of the recently employed solution methodologies in the
field of vehicle routing problem (VRP) and its variants. VRP and its variants are first briefly …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received plenty of attention due to their high
flexibility and enhanced communication ability, nonetheless, the limited onboard energy …

We aim to suggest a simple genetic algorithm (GA) and other four hybrid GAs (HGAs) for
solving the asymmetric distance‐constrained vehicle routing problem (ADVRP), a variant of …