In the wake of e-commerce and its successful diffusion in most commercial activities, last-
mile distribution causes more and more trouble in urban areas all around the globe …

This article provides a survey on the highly popular metaheuristic framework, the adaptive
large neighborhood search (ALNS). The basic concepts of ALNS are discussed in this …

The use of electric vehicles for goods distribution opens up a wide range of research
problems. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) operate on batteries that have a limited life, as …

Due to the complexity and the magnitude of optimisation models that appeared in
sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), the use of meta-heuristic algorithms as …

In this paper, we show how to extend solution methods for vehicle-routing problems with
intermediate stops (using the example of an Adaptive Variable Neighborhood Search …

Conventionally, vehicle routing problems are defined on a network in which the customer
locations and arcs are given. Typically, these arcs somehow represent the distances or …

The location‐routing problem (LRP) and its variants have been studied extensively over the
past few years. The number of articles has grown more than ever, since the last surveys …

Recent years have witnessed an increased awareness of the negative external impacts of
freight transportation. The field of Operational Research (OR) has, particularly in the recent …

City logistics is one of the significant branches of supply chain management, dealing with
the logistics and transportation activities in urban areas. This research area has recently …

Heterogeneous fleet vehicles can be used to reduce carbon emissions. We propose an
improved branch-and-price (BAP) algorithm to precisely solve the heterogeneous fleet …