Branch and price for the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows

Transportation Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 380-396

  Dabia, Said ^a,b   Ropke, Stefan ^c   Van Woensel, Tom ^b   De Kok, Ton ^b  

^a Eyefreight BV   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Branch and price; Column generation; Time dependent travel times; Vehicle routing problem

Indexed keywords

COSTS; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; ROADS AND STREETS; SALES; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

BRANCH AND PRICE; BRANCH-AND-PRICE ALGORITHMS; COLUMN GENERATION; SET-PARTITIONING PROBLEMS; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME DEPENDENT VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS; TIME-DEPENDENT SHORTEST PATHS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84882371431     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1120.0445     Document Type: Article

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