Rich vehicle routing in theory and practice

Logistics Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 47-63

  Drexl, Michael ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY MAINZ   (Germany)

^b Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Commercial vehicle routing software; Heuristics; Rich vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865119757     PISSN: 1865035X     EISSN: 18650368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12159-012-0080-2     Document Type: Article

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