A survey of recent advances in vehicle routing problems

Aderemi Oluyinka Adewumi () and Olawale Joshua Adeleke ()
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Aderemi Oluyinka Adewumi: University of Kwazulu-Natal
Olawale Joshua Adeleke: Covenant University

International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, No 18, 155-172

Abstract: Abstract A vehicle routing problem involves finding a set of optimal route for a fleet of capacitated vehicles which are available at a location to service the demands of a set of customers. In its simplest form, a customer is required to be visited once and the capacity of a vehicle must not be exceeded. In this paper, a review of four common and applicable variants of the vehicle routing problem, namely, capacitated vehicle routing problem, vehicle routing problem with time windows, periodic vehicle routing problem and the dynamic vehicle routing problem, are considered based on formulation techniques, methods of solution and areas of application. A summary table is presented for each variant to emphasis some key features that represent direction of current research.

Keywords: Vehicle routing problem; Dynamic; Periodic; Capacitated; Time windows; Formulation; Method of solution; Areas of application (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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