Vehicle routing with soft time windows and stochastic travel times: A column generation and branch-and-price solution approach

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 236, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 789-799

  Tas D ^a   Gendreau, M ^b   Dellaert, N ^a   Van Woensel, T ^a   De Kok, A G ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Branch and price; Column generation; Routing; Stochastic travel times

Indexed keywords

COSTS; GRAPH THEORY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRAVEL TIME; VEHICLE ROUTING;

BRANCH AND PRICE; COLUMN GENERATION; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; ROUTING; SHORTEST PATH PROBLEM; STOCHASTIC TRAVEL TIMES; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84897915068     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.05.024     Document Type: Article

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