Packing first, routing second-a heuristic for the vehicle routing and loading problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 873-885

  Bortfeldt, Andreas ^a   Homberger, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^b University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D packing; Heuristic; Vehicle routing; Vehicle routing and loading problem

Indexed keywords

3D PACKING; COMPUTATION TIME; HEURISTIC; HIGH QUALITY; LOADING PROBLEM; PACKING CONSTRAINTS; TIME WINDOWS; UNLOADING SEQUENCE;

VEHICLE ROUTING;

LOADING;

EID: 84870252401     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2012.09.005     Document Type: Article

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