A Multi-Trip Split-Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows for Inventory Replenishment Under Stochastic Travel Times

Networks and Spatial Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 41-68

  Chu, James C ^a   Yan, Shangyao ^b   Huang, Han Jheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heuristic; Multi trip split delivery; Stochastic travel time; Time space network; Vehicle routing problem with time windows

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; NETWORK ROUTING; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAINS; TRAVEL TIME; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

HEURISTIC; SPLIT DELIVERY; STOCHASTIC TRAVEL TIME; TIME-SPACE NETWORKS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH TIME WINDOWS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84952005390     PISSN: 1566113X     EISSN: 15729427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11067-015-9317-3     Document Type: Article

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