A branch-and-price approach for a multi-period vehicle routing problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 55, Issue , 2015, Pages 167-184

  Dayarian, Iman ^a,d   Crainic, Teodor Gabriel ^b,d   Gendreau, Michel ^c,d   Rei, Walter ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d INTERUNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRE ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Branch and price; Multi period vehicle routing problem; Seasonality; Tactical planning

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; GRAPH THEORY; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

BRANCH AND PRICE; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; PRODUCTION LOCATIONS; PRODUCTION VARIATIONS; SEASONALITY; SHORTEST PATH PROBLEM; TACTICAL PLANNING; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84918784054     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

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