This paper is the first part of a comprehensive survey on pickup and delivery problems.
Basically, two problem classes can be distinguished. The first class, discussed in this paper …

This paper addresses a vehicle scheduling problem encountered in home health care
logistics. It concerns the delivery of drugs and medical devices from the home care …

Cross-docking is considered as an efficient method to control the inventory flow, which is
essential in supply chain management. In this paper, we consider a model that integrates …

Organizations have recently become interested in applying new approaches to reduce fuel
consumptions, aiming at decreasing green house gases emission due to their harmful …

Food rescue organizations are not-for-profit organizations that aid in alleviating hunger, by
rescuing the surplus food from different food providers and re-distributing to welfare …

In this paper we introduce a new class of Pickup and Delivery problems on circles (or rings).
These problems arise in the field of public transportation systems where autonomous (ie …

One of the most significant problems of supply chain management is the distribution of
products between locations, most known as the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The vehicle …

This paper addresses a special case of periodic vehicle routing problem in which each node
has a nonnegative supply or demand of a single product that is unpaired. The product …

En este trabajo se realiza una revisión bibliográfica del estado del arte del problema de
ruteo de vehículos con entregas y recogidas (VRPPD: Vehicle routing problem with pickups …

The optimal routing of a single vehicle with limited capacity that delivers one product to n
clients according to a predefined client sequence can be determined using dynamic …