The scheduling of deliveries and the routing of vehicles are of great importance for supply
chain operations, as both determine to a great extent the distribution costs, as well as …

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 …

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 …

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a heuristic global optimization method, proposed
originally by Kennedy and Eberhart in 1995. It is now one of the most commonly used …

In the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery (VRPSPD), goods
have to be transported from different origins to different destinations, and each customer has …

Increasing environmental, legislative, and social concerns are forcing companies to take a
fresh view of the impact of supply chain operations on environment and society when …

This paper considers a variant of the classical capacitated vehicle routing problem called
clustered vehicle routing problem (CluVRP). In CluVRP, customers are grouped into …

Scheduling the supply chain in an integrated manner is a quite fundamental subject in
supply chain management. To consider due-dates with production and distribution times at …

Customized bus (CB) is an increasingly popular mode of transportation in many cities
around the world. However, studies on CB network design have mostly overlooked three …

The vehicle routing problem is one of the most important areas of logistics management.
This study considers two-echelon vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and …