A unified heuristic for a large class of Vehicle Routing Problems with Backhauls

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 750-775

  Ropke, Stefan ^a   Pisinger, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Large neighborhood search; Metaheuristics; Vehicle routing problems

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

LARGE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH; METAHEURISTICS; STOCHASTIC METHODS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 31144472823     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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