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 …

In today's highly competitive environment, green logistics issues are gaining interest. This
paper analyses how logistics managers could lead the initiative in this area by incorporating …

In this paper, we address a real life waste collection vehicle routing problem with time
windows (VRPTW) with consideration of multiple disposal trips and drivers' lunch breaks …

Enhancing visual attractiveness in a routing plan has proven to be an effective way to
facilitate practical implementation and positive collaboration among planning and …

Although our urbanized civilization requires freight transport in order to sustain it, urban
freight transport is especially recognized for its unsustainable impacts. To reduce the …

Time-access regulations and vehicle restrictions are increasingly used, especially in
western Europe, to improve social sustainability in urban areas. These regulations …

Waste Management (WM) obtains one third of its revenue from landfill disposals and two-
thirds from waste-collection services. As most of the revenue comes from collecting trash …

Innovative logistics service providers are currently looking for possibilities to introduce
electric vehicles for goods distribution. As electrical vehicles still suffer from a limited …

In this paper we present a new insertion-based construction heuristic to solve the multi-
vehicle pickup and delivery problem with time windows. The new heuristic does not only …

This study presents new exact algorithms for the clustered vehicle routing problem
(CluVRP). The CluVRP is a generalization of the capacitated vehicle routing problem …