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 …

Considering autonomous delivery robots in urban logistics has attracted a great deal of
attention in recent years. In the meantime, new technology has led to new operational …

This study investigates a multi-depot multi-trip vehicle routing problem with time windows
and release dates, which is a practical problem in the last mile distribution operations. This …

The well-known Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) aims to reduce the
cost of moving goods between several destinations while accommodating constraints like …

Abstract Context The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) has numerous applications in real life.
It clarifies in a wide area of transportation and distribution such as transportation of …

Recently, a growing concern with sustainability has become a consideration in business
operations. However, there is a lack of mathematical models that quantify environmental …

This research addresses optimizing production, inventory, location, and routing in a multi-
level supply chain. In the studied supply chain, products are first sent to several distribution …

We address the robust vehicle routing problem with time windows (RVRPTW) under
customer demand and travel time uncertainties. As presented thus far in the literature, robust …

As increasing transportation costs mounts pressure on the businesses, there has been an
increasing interest on vehicle routing problem (VRP) as a viable and effective solution. Both …

Motivated by the challenges of non-emergency patient transportation services in the
healthcare industry, this study investigated a multi-trip vehicle routing problem incorporating …