A concise guide to existing and emerging vehicle routing problem variants

T Vidal, G Laporte, P Matl - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

Exact branch-price-and-cut algorithms for vehicle routing

L Costa, C Contardo… - Transportation …, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are among the most studied problems in operations
research. Nowadays, the leading exact algorithms for solving many classes of VRPs are …

Review of vehicle routing problems: Models, classification and solving algorithms

H Zhang, H Ge, J Yang, Y Tong - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2022 - Springer
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 …

A review on the electric vehicle routing problems: Variants and algorithms

H Qin, X Su, T Ren, Z Luo - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2021 - Springer
Over the past decade, electric vehicles (EVs) have been considered in a growing number of
models and methods for vehicle routing problems (VRPs). This study presents a …

Rich vehicle routing problems: From a taxonomy to a definition

R Lahyani, M Khemakhem, F Semet - European Journal of Operational …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the last years, several variants of multi-constrained Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs)
have been studied, forming a class of problems known as Rich Vehicle Routing Problems …

Heuristics for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems: A survey and synthesis

T Vidal, TG Crainic, M Gendreau, C Prins - European Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The attributes of vehicle routing problems are additional characteristics or constraints that
aim to better take into account the specificities of real applications. The variants thus formed …

A survey on matheuristics for routing problems

C Archetti, MG Speranza - EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we survey the literature on matheuristics proposed to solve vehicle routing
problems. A matheuristic makes use of mathematical programming models in a heuristic …

[LIVRE][B] Handbook on scheduling

J Blazewicz, K Ecker, E Pesch, G Schmidt, J Weglarz - 2019 - Springer
Scheduling problems can be understood in general as the problems of allocating resources
over time to perform a set of tasks being parts of some processes, among which …

Vehicle routing problems over time: a survey

A Mor, MG Speranza - Annals of Operations Research, 2022 - Springer
In vehicle routing problems (VRPs) the decisions to be taken concern the assignment of
customers to vehicles and the sequencing of the customers assigned to each vehicle …