Opportunities for reinforcement learning in stochastic dynamic vehicle routing

FD Hildebrandt, BW Thomas, MW Ulmer - Computers & operations …, 2023 - Elsevier
There has been a paradigm-shift in urban logistic services in the last years; demand for real-
time, instant mobility and delivery services grows. This poses new challenges to logistic …

Deep reinforcement learning in transportation research: A review

NP Farazi, B Zou, T Ahamed, L Barua - Transportation research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Applying and adapting deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to tackle transportation problems
is an emerging interdisciplinary field. While rapidly growing, a comprehensive and synthetic …

Analytics and machine learning in vehicle routing research

R Bai, X Chen, ZL Chen, T Cui, S Gong… - … Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most intensively studied combinatorial
optimisation problems for which numerous models and algorithms have been proposed. To …

An overview and experimental study of learning-based optimization algorithms for the vehicle routing problem

B Li, G Wu, Y He, M Fan… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a typical discrete combinatorial optimization problem,
and many models and algorithms have been proposed to solve the VRP and its variants …

Or-gym: A reinforcement learning library for operations research problems

CD Hubbs, HD Perez, O Sarwar, NV Sahinidis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely applied to game-playing and surpassed the
best human-level performance in many domains, yet there are few use-cases in industrial or …

Deep inventory management

D Madeka, K Torkkola, C Eisenach, A Luo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This work provides a Deep Reinforcement Learning approach to solving a periodic review
inventory control system with stochastic vendor lead times, lost sales, correlated demand …

Reinforcement learning for ridesharing: An extended survey

ZT Qin, H Zhu, J Ye - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the literature on reinforcement
learning approaches to decision optimization problems in a typical ridesharing system …

A survey of dynamic pickup and delivery problems

J Cai, Q Zhu, Q Lin, L Ma, J Li, Z Ming - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the ubiquitous real-world applications of logistics and supply chain management
over the past two decades, dynamic pickup and delivery problems (DPDPs), as a subclass …

Rl4co: an extensive reinforcement learning for combinatorial optimization benchmark

F Berto, C Hua, J Park, L Luttmann, Y Ma, F Bu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce RL4CO, an extensive reinforcement learning (RL) for combinatorial
optimization (CO) benchmark. RL4CO employs state-of-the-art software libraries as well as …

Learning to optimize industry-scale dynamic pickup and delivery problems

X Li, W Luo, M Yuan, J Wang, J Lu… - 2021 IEEE 37th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem (DPDP) is aimed at dynamically scheduling
vehicles among multiple sites in order to minimize the cost when delivery orders are not …