Industrial aspects and literature survey: Fleet composition and routing

A Hoff, H Andersson, M Christiansen, G Hasle… - Computers & Operations …, 2010 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to describe industrial aspects of combined fleet composition
and routing in maritime and road-based transportation, and to present the current status of …

Survey paper—a review of empty flows and fleet management models in freight transportation

PJ Dejax, TG Crainic - Transportation science, 1987 - pubsonline.informs.org
The transportation of freight, by any mode, usually generates a significant number of empty
vehicle movements. Understanding and controlling this phenomenon is important for all …

The general pickup and delivery problem

MWP Savelsbergh, M Sol - Transportation science, 1995 - pubsonline.informs.org
In pickup and delivery problems vehicles have to transport loads from origins to destinations
without transshipment at intermediate locations. In this paper, we discuss several …

A tabu search heuristic for the multi-depot vehicle routing problem

J Renaud, G Laporte, FF Boctor - Computers & Operations Research, 1996 - Elsevier
Pergamon 0305-0548(95)00026-7 A TABU SEARCH HEURISTIC FOR THE MULTI-DEPOT
VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM Jacques Renaudl'2'3'4 t, Gilbe Page 1 Pergamon 0305-0548(95)00026-7 …

The multi-depot vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous vehicle fleet: Formulation and a variable neighborhood search implementation

S Salhi, A Imran, NA Wassan - Computers & Operations Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The multi-depot fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem, also known as the multi-depot
routing with heterogeneous vehicles, is investigated. A mathematical formulation is given …

Optimal fleet design in a ship routing problem

K Fagerholt - International transactions in operational research, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The problem of deciding an optimal fleet (the type of ships and the number of each type) in a
real liner ship** problem is considered. The liner ship** problem is a multi‐trip vehicle …

A multi-level composite heuristic for the multi-depot vehicle fleet mix problem

S Salhi, M Sari - European journal of operational research, 1997 - Elsevier
The problem of simultaneously allocating customers to depots, finding the delivery routes
and determining the vehicle fleet composition is addressed. A multi-level composite heuristic …

An optimization-based heuristic for vehicle routing and scheduling with soft time window constraints

YA Koskosidis, WB Powell… - Transportation …, 1992 - pubsonline.informs.org
The Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problem with Time Window constraints is formulated
as a mixed integer program, and optimization-based heuristics which extend the cluster-first …

Arc routing methods and applications

AA Assad, BL Golden - … in operations research and management science, 1995 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The term" arc routing" refers to routing problems where the key service
activity is to cover arcs of a transportation network. In contrast to node routing, where the key …

A heuristic algorithm for the truckload and less-than-truckload problem

CW Chu - European Journal of Operational Research, 2005 - Elsevier
The delivery of goods from a warehouse to local customers is an important and practical
problem of a logistics manager. In reality, we are facing the fluctuation of demand. When the …