Vehicle routing problems have been the focus of extensive research over the past sixty
years, driven by their economic importance and their theoretical interest. The diversity of …

Recent decades have seen increasing utilization of optimization packages, based on
Operations Research and Mathematical Programming techniques, for effective management …

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, offers the advantage of
speed, flexibility, and ease in delivering goods to customers. They are particularly useful for …

Traffic congestion is a major concern in urban transportation in supply chain management.
Road-based logistic companies can mitigate their Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions …

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have the potential to significantly reduce the cost and
time of making last-mile deliveries and responding to emergencies. Despite this potential …

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 …

Green Logistics has emerged as the new agenda item in supply chain management. The
traditional objective of distribution management has been upgraded to minimizing system …

Road freight transportation is a major contributor to carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.
Reducing these emissions in transportation route planning requires an understanding of …

This paper presents several heuristics for a variation of the vehicle routing problem in which
the transportation fleet is composed of electric vehicles with limited autonomy in need for …

In this paper, we consider the vehicle routing problem with load-dependent drones
(VRPLD), in which the energy consumption of drones is load-dependent and represented by …