Recently, a taxonomic review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature published
between 2009 and June 2015 stated that most of the surveyed articles use metaheuristics …

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 …

Abstract In the Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls (VRPB), the customer set is
partitioned into linehaul customers who require deliveries, and backhaul customers who …

One of today's most frequently discussed topics in the business world is how to escape from
the intense Red Ocean and how to create an uncontested Blue Ocean. However, because …

Reverse supply chains consist of a series of activities required to collect used products from
consumers and reprocess them to either recover their leftover market values or dispose of …

Today, companies need to collect and to deliver goods from and to their depots and their
customers. This problem is described as a Vehicle Routing Problem with Mixed Linehaul …

The paper investigates a class of extensions to the vehicle routing problem. Different
problem versions–some well-known, some more recent–are explained and placed in a …

This paper analyzes the fleet mixed vehicle‐routing problem with backhauls, a rich and
realistic variant of the popular vehicle‐routing problem in which both delivery and pick‐up …

High competition in today's global market has forced the organisations to invest in and focus
on their logistics system. Logistics is a business planning framework for the management of …

This paper addresses the integration of the planning decisions concerning inbound logistics
in an industrial setting (from the suppliers to the mill) and outbound logistics (from the mill to …