A concise guide to existing and emerging vehicle routing problem variants

T Vidal, G Laporte, P Matl - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Vehicle routing problems have been the focus of extensive research over the past sixty
years, driven by their economic importance and their theoretical interest. The diversity of …

Collaborative multi-depot pickup and delivery vehicle routing problem with split loads and time windows

Y Wang, Q Li, X Guan, J Fan, M Xu, H Wang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Optimization of collaborative multi-depot pickup and delivery logistics networks (CMDPDLN)
with split loads and time windows involves a customer demand splitting strategy and a multi …

The inventory-routing problem of returnable transport items with time windows and simultaneous pickup and delivery in closed-loop supply chains

G Iassinovskaia, S Limbourg, F Riane - International Journal of Production …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reducing environmental impact, related regulations and potential for operational benefits
are the main reasons why companies share their returnable transport items (RTIs) among …

The last-mile delivery vehicle routing problem with handling cost in the front warehouse mode

Y Li, J Yang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper aims to investigate the vehicle routing problem faced by a logistics service
provider that performs the last-mile delivery of large household appliances under the front …

[HTML][HTML] The pickup and delivery problem with split loads and transshipments: A branch-and-cut solution approach

D Wolfinger, JJ Salazar-González - European Journal of Operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the design of routes for a fleet of vehicles serving customer requests. It
is a pickup and delivery problem where each customer location can be visited several times …

[HTML][HTML] A large neighborhood search for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows, split loads and transshipments

D Wolfinger - Computers & Operations Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In the pickup and delivery problem (PDP) a fleet of capacitated vehicles must be routed in
order to satisfy a set of customer requests. In this article, we address a variant of the one-to …

Pickup and delivery with electric vehicles under stochastic battery depletion

M Soysal, M Çimen, S Belbağ - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of electric vehicles in passenger and freight transportation has been increasing
especially in developed countries. Stochastic battery depletion is one of the concerns that …

Large neighborhood-based metaheuristic and branch-and-price for the pickup and delivery problem with split loads

MN Haddad, R Martinelli, T Vidal, S Martins… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
We consider the multi-vehicle one-to-one pickup and delivery problem with split loads, a NP-
hard problem linked with a variety of applications for bulk product transportation, bike …

Fleet sizing and routing of healthcare automated guided vehicles

I Aziez, JF Côté, LC Coelho - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes techniques to improve the efficiency of transportation activities within
hospitals. Transportation is a major activity in hospitals which requires management efforts …

Ride-matching and routing optimisation: Models and a large neighbourhood search heuristic

L Hou, D Li, D Zhang - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper considers a ridesharing problem on how to match riders to drivers and how to
choose the best routes for vehicles. Unlike the others in the literature, we are concerned with …