Publisher Summary This chapter discusses some of the most important vehicle routing
problem types. The vehicle routing problem lies at the heart of distribution management. It is …

Abstract In the Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls (VRPB), the customer set is
partitioned into linehaul customers who require deliveries, and backhaul customers who …

The attributes of vehicle routing problems are additional characteristics or constraints that
aim to better take into account the specificities of real applications. The variants thus formed …

This paper is the first part of a comprehensive survey on pickup and delivery problems.
Basically, two problem classes can be distinguished. The first class, discussed in this paper …

This paper addresses a vehicle scheduling problem encountered in home health care
logistics. It concerns the delivery of drugs and medical devices from the home care …

In this paper we review the exact algorithms based on the branch and bound approach
proposed in the last years for the solution of the basic version of the vehicle routing problem …

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls is a generalization of the ordinary capacitated
vehicle routing problem where goods are delivered from the depot to the linehaul customers …

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Pickups and Deliveries (VRPPD) is an extension to the
classical Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), where customers may both receive and send …

The vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-up and delivery (VRP_SPD) is a variant
of the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP) where clients require simultaneous pick-up …

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