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COR
2004
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A tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows and split deliveries
The routing of a fleet of vehicles to service a set of customers is important in the field of distribution. Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) arise in many real-life applications wit...
Sin C. Ho, Dag Haugland
NETWORKS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Models and branch-and-cut algorithms for pickup and delivery problems with time windows
In the pickup and delivery problem with time windows (PDPTW), capacitated vehicles must be routed to satisfy a set of transportation requests between given origins and destination...
Stefan Ropke, Jean-François Cordeau, Gilber...
HM
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 days ago
Multiple Variable Neighborhood Search Enriched with ILP Techniques for the Periodic Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
Abstract. In this work we extend a VNS for the periodic vehicle routing problem with time windows (PVRPTW) to a multiple VNS (mVNS) where several VNS instances are applied cooperat...
Sandro Pirkwieser, Günther R. Raidl
CONSTRAINTS
2000
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A Comparison of Traditional and Constraint-based Heuristic Methods on Vehicle Routing Problems with Side Constraints
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a variant of the familiar travelling salesperson problem (TSP). In the VRP we are to perform a number of visits, using a number of vehicles of ...
Philip Kilby, Patrick Prosser, Paul Shaw
EOR
2008
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A General Vehicle Routing Problem
In this paper we study a rich vehicle routing problem incorporating various complexities found in real-life applications. The General Vehicle Routing Problem (GVRP) is a combined ...
Asvin Goel, Volker Gruhn