The impact of food perishability issues in the vehicle routing problem

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 223-233

  Amorim, P ^a   Almada Lobo, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Food perishability; Freshness; Multi objective optimization; Routing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DISTRIBUTION PROCESS; FRESHNESS; MULTI OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE MODELING; ROUTING; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH TIME WINDOWS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

FOOD PRODUCTS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84892442066     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

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