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 …

A taxonomic review of metaheuristic algorithms for solving the vehicle routing problem and its variants

R Elshaer, H Awad - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, a taxonomic review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature published
between 2009 and June 2015 stated that most of the surveyed articles use metaheuristics …

A review of vehicle routing with simultaneous pickup and delivery

Ç Koç, G Laporte, İ Tükenmez - Computers & Operations Research, 2020 - Elsevier
In the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery (VRPSPD), goods
have to be transported from different origins to different destinations, and each customer has …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic literature review of the vehicle routing problem in reverse logistics operations

K Sar, P Ghadimi - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing rate at which goods ranging from food products to electronic products are
consumed has led to rapidly increasing waste worldwide. This huge amount of waste poses …

[BOOK][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 …

Bi-objective multi-period vehicle routing for perishable goods delivery considering customer satisfaction

X Liang, N Wang, M Zhang, B Jiang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Preserving the integrity, safety and freshness of perishables can improve customer
satisfaction and enhance delivery firm's competitiveness. Since perishables will lose their …

Vehicle routing problems in which consistency considerations are important: A survey

AA Kovacs, BL Golden, RF Hartl, SN Parragh - Networks, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
An increasing number of companies focus on customer satisfaction to increase the lifetime
value of each customer. In vehicle routing, customer satisfaction is often a result of …