Vehicle routing problem with time windows, Part II: Metaheuristics

O Bräysy, M Gendreau - Transportation science, 2005 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper surveys the research on the metaheuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem with
Time Windows (VRPTW). The VRPTW can be described as the problem of designing least …

Evolutionary algorithms for the vehicle routing problem with time windows

O Bräysy, W Dullaert, M Gendreau - Journal of Heuristics, 2004 - Springer
This paper surveys the research on evolutionary algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem
with Time Windows (VRPTW). The VRPTW can be described as the problem of designing …

Design and modeling of a crowdsource-enabled system for urban parcel relay and delivery

N Kafle, B Zou, J Lin - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a crowdsource-enabled system for urban parcel relay and delivery. We
consider cyclists and pedestrians as crowdsources who are close to customers and …

EDAL: An energy-efficient, delay-aware, and lifetime-balancing data collection protocol for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

Y Yao, Q Cao, AV Vasilakos - IEEE/ACM transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our work in this paper stems from our insight that recent research efforts on open vehicle
routing (OVR) problems, an active area in operations research, are based on similar …

Multi-objective genetic algorithms for vehicle routing problem with time windows

B Ombuki, BJ Ross, F Hanshar - Applied Intelligence, 2006 - Springer
Abstract The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time windows (VRPTW) is an extension of the
capacity constrained Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The VRPTW is NP-Complete and …

A hybrid genetic algorithm for a home health care routing problem with time window and fuzzy demand

Y Shi, T Boudouh, O Grunder - Expert Systems with Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Home Health Care (HHC) companies are widespread in European countries, and
aim to serve patients at home to help them recover from illness and injury in a personal …

Hybrid whale optimization algorithm for enhanced routing of limited capacity vehicles in supply chain management

VHS Pham, VN Nguyen, NT Nguyen Dang - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The present study focuses on the problem of vehicle routing with limited capacity, with the
objective of minimizing the transportation distance required to serve h clients with …

Metaheuristics for solving the vehicle routing problem with the time windows and energy consumption in cold chain logistics

M Song, J Li, Y Han, Y Han, L Liu, Q Sun - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we consider a canonical vehicle routing problem (VRP) in the cold chain
logistic system, where three special constraints are included, ie, the dispatching time …

Multi-objective vehicle routing problem with time windows using goal programming and genetic algorithm

K Ghoseiri, SF Ghannadpour - Applied Soft Computing, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new model and solution for multi-objective vehicle routing problem
with time windows (VRPTW) using goal programming and genetic algorithm that in which …

PSO-based algorithm for home care worker scheduling in the UK

C Akjiratikarl, P Yenradee, PR Drake - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper presents the novel application of a collaborative population-based meta-heuristic
technique called Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to the scheduling of home care …