Vehicle Routing Problem with elementary shortest path based column generation

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2972-2990

  Chabrier, Alain ^a  

^a ILOG   (Spain)

Author keywords

Branch and Price; Elementary shortest path; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ROUTERS; VEHICLES;

BRANCH-AND-PRICE; COLUMN GENERATION; ELEMENTARY SHORTEST PATH; VEHICLE ROUTING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 32044469861     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.02.029     Document Type: Article

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