Electric vehicle routing problem: A systematic review and a new comprehensive model with nonlinear energy recharging and consumption

Y **ao, Y Zhang, I Kaku, R Kang, X Pan - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electric vehicles (EVs) are witnessing a surge in demand and production for their
environmental benefits. This study reviews the development of electric vehicle routing …

A survey on the electric vehicle routing problem: variants and solution approaches

T Erdelić, T Carić - Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In order to ensure high‐quality and on‐time delivery in logistic distribution processes, it is
necessary to efficiently manage the delivery fleet. Nowadays, due to the new policies and …

Reinforcement learning for solving the vehicle routing problem

M Nazari, A Oroojlooy, L Snyder… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present an end-to-end framework for solving the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using
reinforcement learning. In this approach, we train a single policy model that finds near …

The electric fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem with time windows and recharging stations

G Hiermann, J Puchinger, S Ropke, RF Hartl - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to new regulations and further technological progress in the field of electric vehicles, the
research community faces the new challenge of incorporating the electric energy based …

The heterogeneous green vehicle routing and scheduling problem with time-varying traffic congestion

Y **ao, A Konak - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The green vehicle routing and scheduling problem (GVRSP) aims to minimize green-house
gas emissions in logistics systems through better planning of deliveries/pickups made by a …

Rich vehicle routing problem: Survey

J Caceres-Cruz, P Arias, D Guimarans… - ACM Computing …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a well-known research line in the optimization
research community. Its different basic variants have been widely explored in the literature …

Thirty years of heterogeneous vehicle routing

Ç Koç, T Bektaş, O Jabali, G Laporte - European Journal of Operational …, 2016 - Elsevier
It has been around 30 years since the heterogeneous vehicle routing problem was
introduced, and significant progress has since been made on this problem and its variants …

A novel reinforcement learning-based hyper-heuristic for heterogeneous vehicle routing problem

W Qin, Z Zhuang, Z Huang, H Huang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates a practical heterogeneous vehicle routing problem that involves
routing a predefined fleet with different vehicle capacities to serve a series of customers to …

A unified solution framework for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems

T Vidal, TG Crainic, M Gendreau, C Prins - European Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Vehicle routing attributes are extra characteristics and decisions that complement the
academic problem formulations and aim to properly account for real-life application needs …

The fleet size and mix pollution-routing problem

Ç Koç, T Bektaş, O Jabali, G Laporte - Transportation Research Part B …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the fleet size and mix pollution-routing problem which extends the
pollution-routing problem by considering a heterogeneous vehicle fleet. The main objective …