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

SY Tan, WC Yeh - Applied Sciences, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Transportation planning has been established as a key topic in the literature and social
production practices. An increasing number of researchers are studying vehicle routing …

Vehicle routing problems for drone delivery

K Dorling, J Heinrichs, GG Messier… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Survey of green vehicle routing problem: past and future trends

C Lin, KL Choy, GTS Ho, SH Chung, HY Lam - Expert systems with …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
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 …

A survey on dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing problems

U Ritzinger, J Puchinger, RF Hartl - International Journal of …, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
Research on dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing problems received increasing interest
in the last decade. It considers a novel problem class, aiming at an appropriate handling of …

A literature review on the vehicle routing problem with multiple depots

JR Montoya-Torres, JL Franco, SN Isaza… - Computers & Industrial …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art survey on the vehicle routing problem with
multiple depots (MDVRP). Our review considered papers published between 1988 and …

A two-phase optimization model for the demand-responsive customized bus network design

D Huang, Y Gu, S Wang, Z Liu, W Zhang - Transportation Research Part C …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new optimization model for the network design problem of the
demand-responsive customized bus (CB). The proposed model consists of two phases …

A review of dynamic vehicle routing problems

V Pillac, M Gendreau, C Guéret, AL Medaglia - European Journal of …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
A number of technological advances have led to a renewed interest in dynamic vehicle
routing problems. This survey classifies routing problems from the perspective of information …

An overview and experimental study of learning-based optimization algorithms for the vehicle routing problem

B Li, G Wu, Y He, M Fan… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a typical discrete combinatorial optimization problem,
and many models and algorithms have been proposed to solve the VRP and its variants …

An optimization-driven dynamic vehicle routing algorithm for on-demand meal delivery using drones

Y Liu - Computers & Operations Research, 2019‏ - Elsevier
As technology continues to improve people's quality of life, there is a large, unfulfilled market
worldwide for on-demand meal delivery services. The competitive edge of the business is …