A taxonomic review of metaheuristic algorithms for solving the vehicle routing problem and its variants

R Elshaer, H Awad - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Heuristic approaches to address vehicle routing problem in the Iot-based waste management system

G Rahmanifar, M Mohammadi, A Sherafat… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, population growth and urban development lead to having an efficient waste
management system (WMS) based on recent advances and trends. Alongside all functions …

Learning improvement heuristics for solving routing problems

Y Wu, W Song, Z Cao, J Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies in using deep learning (DL) to solve routing problems focus on construction
heuristics, whose solutions are still far from optimality. Improvement heuristics have great …

An improved ant colony optimization algorithm for the multi-depot green vehicle routing problem with multiple objectives

Y Li, H Soleimani, M Zohal - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is one of the widely researched areas in transportation
science, mainly due to the potential cost savings and service improvement opportunities …

Vehicle routing problems with road‐network information: State of the art

H Ben Ticha, N Absi, D Feillet, A Quilliot - Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Vehicle routing problems have drawn researchers' attention for more than 50 years. Most
approaches found in the literature address these problems using the so‐called customer …

Tabu search for the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows on a road network

M Gmira, M Gendreau, A Lodi, JY Potvin - European Journal of Operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
Travel times inside cities often vary quite a lot during a day and significantly impact the
duration of commercial delivery routes. Several authors have suggested time-dependent …

Electric vehicle routing problem considering energy differences of charging stations

L Fan, C Liu, B Dai, J Li, Z Wu, Y Guo - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to promote green and sustainable development of the transportation industry, an
increasing number of logistics companies are deploying Electric Vehicles (EVs) to provide …

Design and evaluation of a multi-trip delivery model with truck and drones

M Moshref-Javadi, S Lee, M Winkenbach - Transportation Research Part E …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract We extend the Traveling Repairman Problem (TRP) by assuming a single truck
which can stop at customer locations and launch drones multiple times from each stop …

A robust optimization for a home health care routing and scheduling problem with consideration of uncertain travel and service times

Y Shi, T Boudouh, O Grunder - … Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2019 - Elsevier
In today's competitive environment, one of the most critical objectives for Home Health Care
(HHC) companies is to meet the demand of patients in a timely fashion. According to the …

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 …