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 …

Explicit evolutionary multitasking for combinatorial optimization: A case study on capacitated vehicle routing problem

L Feng, Y Huang, L Zhou, J Zhong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, evolutionary multitasking (EMT) has been proposed in the field of evolutionary
computation as a new search paradigm, for solving multiple optimization tasks …

Double-assistant evolutionary multitasking algorithm for enhanced electric vehicle routing with backup batteries and battery swapping stations

Y Cai, Y Wu, C Fang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
This study addresses the challenges of the electric vehicle routing problem with time
windows, backup batteries, and battery swapping stations (EVRPTW-BB-BSS), reflecting …

A new hybrid matheuristic of GRASP and VNS based on constructive heuristics, set-covering and set-partitioning formulations applied to the capacitated vehicle …

AM Machado, GR Mauri, MCS Boeres… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper develops a hybrid matheuristic in two stages to solve Capacitated Vehicle
Routing Problem (CVRP) by applying Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure …

[HTML][HTML] Hybridizing large neighborhood search and exact methods for generalized vehicle routing problems with time windows

D Dumez, C Tilk, S Irnich, F Lehuédé… - EURO Journal on …, 2021 - Elsevier
Delivery options are at the heart of the generalized vehicle routing problem with time
windows (GVRPTW) allowing that customer requests are shipped to alternative delivery …

Multitasking evolutionary algorithm based on adaptive seed transfer for combinatorial problem

H Lv, R Liu - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Evolutionary computing (EC) is widely used in dealing with combinatorial optimization
problems (COP). Traditional EC methods can only solve a single task in a single run, while …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of heterogeneous vehicle logistics scheduling with multi-objectives and multi-centers

Z He, M Zhang, Q Chen, S Chen, N Pan - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Industrial enterprises have high requirements on timeliness and cost when delivering
industrial products to their customers. For this reason, this paper studies the vehicle routing …

[HTML][HTML] A simple and effective hybrid genetic search for the job sequencing and tool switching problem

J Mecler, A Subramanian, T Vidal - Computers & Operations Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The job Sequencing and tool Switching Problem (SSP) has been extensively studied in the
field of operations research, due to its practical relevance and methodological interest …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-start algorithm for solving the capacitated vehicle routing problem with two-dimensional loading constraints

LP Fava, JC Furtado, GA Helfer, JLV Barbosa, M Beko… - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
This work presents a multistart algorithm for solving the capacitated vehicle routing problem
with 2D loading constraints (2L-CVRP) allowing for the rotation of goods. Research …

Arc routing with time-dependent travel times and paths

T Vidal, R Martinelli, TA Pham… - Transportation …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Vehicle routing algorithms usually reformulate the road network into a complete graph in
which each arc represents the shortest path between two locations. Studies on time …