The scheduling of deliveries and the routing of vehicles are of great importance for supply
chain operations, as both determine to a great extent the distribution costs, as well as …

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 …

Vehicle routing attributes are extra characteristics and decisions that complement the
academic problem formulations and aim to properly account for real-life application needs …

The attributes of vehicle routing problems are additional characteristics or constraints that
aim to better take into account the specificities of real applications. The variants thus formed …

In this work we propose a hybrid algorithm for a class of Vehicle Routing Problems with
homogeneous fleet. A sequence of Set Partitioning (SP) models, with columns …

The problem studied in this paper is the multi-depot open vehicle routing problem, which
has the following two differences in relation to the classical vehicle routing problem: there …

Abstract We present a Variable Tabu Neighborhood Search (VTNS) algorithm for solving a
class of Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problems (MDVRP). The proposed algorithm applies a …

This paper presents a biased random-key genetic algorithm designed to solve the open
vehicle routing problem with capacity and distance constraints. Consider a depot from which …

The advantages of the cross-docking technique have been increasingly appreciated in
literature and in practice. This appreciation, coupled with the advances of numerous …

This paper studies the Feeder Vehicle Routing Problem (FVRP), a new variant of the vehicle
routing problem (VRP), in which each customer is served by either a large (truck) or a small …