A unified solution framework for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 658-673

  Vidal, Thibaut ^a,c   Crainic, Teodor Gabriel ^b   Gendreau, Michel ^b   Prins, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INTERUNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRE ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

General purpose solver; Multiple attributes; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT BASED DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DIVERSITY MANAGEMENTS; GENERAL-PURPOSE SOLVERS; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; PROBLEM FORMULATION; REAL-LIFE APPLICATIONS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; NETWORK ROUTING; VEHICLE ROUTING;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84892769501     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.09.045     Document Type: Article

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