Abstract The Orienteering Problem (OP) has received a lot of attention in the past few
decades. The OP is a routing problem in which the goal is to determine a subset of nodes to …

This paper contributes to the emerging body of research on crowdshipping, which is a
collaborative strategy that distributes delivery tasks to a mass of actors that act as ordinary …

With the rapid development of logistics industry, vehicle scheduling is the key to the
optimization of transportation links. Vehicle transportation route planning is becoming more …

The high efficiency, flexibility and low cost of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) present
huge application opportunities in various industries. Among those various applications, we …

This paper deals with a new problem that is a generalization of the many to many pickup
and delivery problem and which is motivated by operating self-service bike sharing systems …

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 …

We describe a hierarchical cluster and route procedure (HOGCR) for coordinating vehicle
routing in large-scale post-disaster distribution and evacuation activities. The HOGCR is a …

This paper proposes a logistics model for delivery of prioritized items in disaster relief
operations. It considers multi-items, multi-vehicles, multi-periods, soft time windows, and a …

Abstract The Vehicle Routing Problem with Discrete Split Deliveries and Pickups is a variant
of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Split Deliveries and Pickups, in which customers' …

This paper is a survey on the vehicle routing problems with split deliveries, a class of routing
problems where each customer may be served by more than one vehicle. Starting from the …