Vehicle routing with multiple deliverymen: Modeling and heuristic approaches for the VRPTW

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 636-647

  Pureza, Vitória ^a   Morabito, Reinaldo ^a   Reimann, Marc ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Beverage distribution; Mixed integer programming; Tabu search; Vehicle routing with multiple deliverymen; Vehicle routing with time windows

Indexed keywords

ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC APPROACH; HIGHLY DENSE; MINIMUM COST; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; ROUTING AND SCHEDULING; SERVICE TIME; TIME RESTRICTION; TIME WINDOWS; URBAN AREAS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH TIME WINDOWS; VEHICLE ROUTING WITH TIME WINDOWS; WORKING HOURS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEVERAGES; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; TABU SEARCH; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS;

EID: 84855792252     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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