A taxonomic review of metaheuristic algorithms for solving the vehicle routing problem and its variants

R Elshaer, H Awad - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, a taxonomic review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature published
between 2009 and June 2015 stated that most of the surveyed articles use metaheuristics …

The vehicle routing problem: State of the art classification and review

K Braekers, K Ramaekers… - Computers & industrial …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Flood susceptibility map** using novel ensembles of adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system and metaheuristic algorithms

SVR Termeh, A Kornejady, HR Pourghasemi… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Flood is one of the most destructive natural disasters which cause great financial and life
losses per year. Therefore, producing susceptibility maps for flood management are …

A memory-based iterated local search algorithm for the multi-depot open vehicle routing problem

J Brandão - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The problem studied in this paper is the multi-depot open vehicle routing problem, which
has the following two differences in relation to the classical vehicle routing problem: there …

Optimizing the green open vehicle routing problem with time windows by minimizing comprehensive routing cost

Y Niu, Z Yang, P Chen, J **ao - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of the sharing economy, outsourcing logistics operations to third
party logistics has become an efficient way of reducing costs in freight transportation. It can …

Solving the open vehicle routing problem with capacity and distance constraints with a biased random key genetic algorithm

E Ruiz, V Soto-Mendoza, AER Barbosa… - Computers & Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a biased random-key genetic algorithm designed to solve the open
vehicle routing problem with capacity and distance constraints. Consider a depot from which …

Open vehicle routing problem with cross-docking

FY Vincent, P Jewpanya, AANP Redi - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The advantages of the cross-docking technique have been increasingly appreciated in
literature and in practice. This appreciation, coupled with the advances of numerous …

A multi-objective dynamic vehicle routing problem with fuzzy time windows: Model, solution and application

SF Ghannadpour, S Noori… - Applied Soft …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, a multi-objective dynamic vehicle routing problem with fuzzy time windows
(DVRPFTW) is presented. In this problem, unlike most of the work where all the data are …

An ACO hybrid metaheuristic for close–open vehicle routing problems with time windows and fuzzy constraints

J Brito, FJ Martínez, JA Moreno, JL Verdegay - Applied Soft Computing, 2015 - Elsevier
The close–open vehicle routing problem is a realistic variant of the “classical” vehicle routing
problem where the routes can be opened and closed, ie all the vehicles are not required to …

Multiple neighborhood search, tabu search and ejection chains for the multi-depot open vehicle routing problem

M Soto, M Sevaux, A Rossi, A Reinholz - Computers & Industrial …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we address the Multi-Depot Open Vehicle Routing Problem (MDOVRP), which
is a generalization of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) where vehicles start …