The electric vehicle-routing problem with time windows and recharging stations

Transportation Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 500-520

  Schneider, Michael ^a   Stenger, Andreas ^b   Goeke, Dominik ^c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Lufthansa AG   (Germany)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electric vehicles; Green logistics; Hybrid metaheuristic; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CHARGING (BATTERIES); ELECTRIC VEHICLES; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LOGISTICS; TABU SEARCH;

FREIGHT CAPACITY; GREEN LOGISTICS; HYBRID HEURISTICS; HYBRID META-HEURISTIC; LAWS AND REGULATIONS; TABU SEARCH HEURISTIC; VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM;

VEHICLE ROUTING;

EID: 84918828171     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2013.0490     Document Type: Article

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