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 …

Consolidation of freight and merging operations are essential for transportation companies
to reduce costs and improve the level of service provided to customers. Such operations …

Cross-docking practice plays an important role in improving the efficiency of distribution
networks, especially, for optimizing supply chain operations. Moreover, transportation route …

In this paper, a new variant of the electric vehicle routing problem is presented. Since
recharging time is commonly considered as idle time, the aim is to take advantage of it by …

This study aimed to resolve a real-world traffic problem in a large-scale plant. Autonomous
vehicle systems (AVSs), which are designed to use multiple vehicles to transfer materials …

This paper presents a bi-objective MILP model for the vehicle routing and scheduling
problem with cross-docking for perishable products. It is demonstrated that considering …

The advantages of the cross-docking technique have been increasingly appreciated in
literature and in practice. This appreciation, coupled with the advances of numerous …

This paper introduces the heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with multiple cross-
docks, a variant of the vehicle routing problem with cross-docking, which considers the use …

Electric vehicle routing problems (E-VRPs) deal with routing a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs)
to serve a set of customers while minimizing an operational criterion, for example, cost or …

The vehicle routing problem with cross-docking (VRPCD) consists in defining a set of routes
that satisfy transportation requests between a set of pickup points and a set of delivery …