[PDF] Top 20 A Survey on the Vehicle Routing Problem and Its Variants

... sit a set of nodes subject to time window and capacity constraints. The fleet is homogeneous and is located at a common depot. Each node requires the same type of ser- vice. An exact method is introduced based on branch ... See full document

... this survey, we proposed a review of recent existing literature devoted to UAV path optimization problems, focusing on the well-known routing problems: the Traveling Salesman Problem and the ... See full document

... WSNs are not centralized one as no static infrastructure exists. Peer-to-peer communication exists between nodes. Multi- hopping can cause a sensor node to communicate with a node that is not in radio range of each other ... See full document

... The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), in its simplest form, seeks to design routes to fulfill the demand of a set of customers who are geographically dispersed from a depot with a set of ... See full document

... excellent survey of the existing loco- motive planning models and algorithms for the locomotive planning ...the problem where a single locomotive must be assigned to each train, no deadhead is allowed, and ... See full document

... recent survey paper with interesting conclusions and research perspectives on the VRPB, including models, exact and heuristic algorithms, variants, industrial applications and case studies, are identified ... See full document

... the problem as gas delivery to gas stations and five years later Clarke and Wrigth (1964) developed the first algorithm to solve ...and its variants and conclude that exact algorithms can only solve ... See full document

... There is a wide range of literature on the VRP as it is a highly relevant, yet complicated problem. We refer to [30], [31] for exact, heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms, and to [2] for recent exact algorithms ... See full document

... recent survey paper with interesting conclusions and research perspectives on the VRPB, including models, exact and heuristic algorithms, variants, industrial applications and case studies, are identified ... See full document

... of Vehicle Routing Problems ...new variants of the original problem, new models, exact methods and heuristic ...combinatorial problem, but also by the applicability and industrial ... See full document

... Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a real life constraint satisfaction problem to find minimal travel distances of vehicles to serve ...considering vehicle capacity ...into vehicle ... See full document

... salesman problem and from then many hundreds of research works have been published on several variants of ...bus routing, garbage collection, private travels operation, courier service applications ... See full document

... all problem variants, including VRPTW, CVRP, MDVRP, SDVRP and OVRP, could be transformed into a rich pickup and delivery model and solved in the adaptive neighborhood search (ALNS) framework and the ... See full document

... to variants of constraints; for instance the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) in which each customer is associated with a time interval and can only be served within this ... See full document

... robust vehicle routing problem is absolutely not vast, especially in the case of heterogeneous ...the problem by an integer linear programming ... See full document

... any Vehicle and when we talk about the MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks), it is critical ...of variants of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithms in solving the Travelling Salesman Problem ...the ... See full document

... The wait listing objective WL is measured by how effectively it promotes meeting all demand in a given instance. Across almost all five instances, the WL objective steered the search towards meeting more of the client ... See full document

... Salesman Problem (TSP) and Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) are both typical circulation problems.. 139.[r] ... See full document

... the problem of one salesman can thus be treated as a specific case of the problem of many salesmen, also called the vehicle routing problem (VRP), which defi- nition establishes that m ... See full document

... constructive routing algorithm for fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem is proposed in which residual costs rather than vehicle types are considered for route ...proposed ... See full document