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In many applications of vehicle routing, a set of time windows are feasible for each visit, giving rise to the Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Time Windows (VRPMTW). We argue that such disjunctions are problematic for many solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Rune Larsen , Dario Pacino

The well-known Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) aims to reduce the cost of moving goods between several destinations while accommodating constraints like set time windows for certain locations and vehicle capacity.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Gautam Siddharth Kashyap , Alexander E. I. Brownlee , Orchid Chetia Phukan , Karan Malik , Samar Wazir

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time-Windows (VRPTW) is an important problem in allocating resources on networks in time and space. We present in this paper a Deterministic Annealing (DA)-based approach to solving the VRPTW with its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-14 Mayank Baranwal , Pratik M. Parekh , Lavanya Marla , Srinivasa M. Salapaka , Carolyn L. Beck

With growing environmental concerns, electric vehicles for logistics have gained significant attention within the computational intelligence community in recent years. This work addresses an emerging and significant extension of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zubin Zheng , Shengcai Liu , Yew-Soon Ong

The goal of this paper is to propose and test a new memetic algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem in parallel computing environment. In this paper we consider simple variation of vehicle routing problem in which the only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Michał Karpiński , Maciej Pacut

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup-Delivery and Time Windows (VRPSPDTW) has attracted much research interest in the last decade, due to its wide application in modern logistics. Since VRPSPDTW is NP-hard and exact methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Shengcai Liu , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

In real life, providing security for a set of large areas by covering the area with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a difficult problem that consist of multiple objectives. These difficulties are even greater if the area coverage must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Fatih Semiz , Faruk Polat

The main goal of this paper is to time-effectively route and schedule a fleet of Electric Vehicles (EVs) on a road network in order to serve a set of customers. In particular, we aim to propose an optimized route planning by exploiting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Maurizio Bruglieri , Ferdinando Pezzella , Ornella Pisacane , Stefano Suraci

We develop a heuristic for the Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (ConVRPTW), which is motivated by a real-world application at a food company's distribution center. Besides standard VRPTW restrictions, ConVRPTW assigns…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Hernán Lespay , Karol Suchan

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW) is a classic NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem widely applied in logistics distribution and transportation management. Its complexity stems from the constraints of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Linjiang Cao , Maonan Wang , Xi Xiong

The Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (DVRPTW) is an extension of the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), which takes into account the dynamic nature of the problem. This aspect requires the vehicle routes to be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Raluca Necula , Mihaela Breaban , Madalina Raschip

Two multivehicle routing problems are considered in the framework that a visit to a location must take place during a specific time window in order to be counted and all time windows are the same length. In the first problem, the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-21 Greg N. Frederickson , Barry Wittman

Optimization of on-demand transportation systems and ride-sharing services involves solving a class of complex vehicle routing problems with pickup and delivery with time windows (VRPPDTW). This paper first proposes a new time-discretized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Monirehalsadat Mahmoudi , Xuesong Zhou

This paper investigates the multi-compartment vehicle routing problem with multiple time windows (MCVRPMTW), an extension of the classical vehicle routing problem with time windows that considers vehicles equipped with multiple compartments…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 El Mehdi Er Raqabi , Kevin Dalmeijer , Pascal Van Hentenryck

The capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with structured Time Windows (cVRPsTW) is concerned with finding optimal tours for vehicles with given capacity constraints to deliver goods to customers within assigned time windows. In our problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Christoph Hertrich , Philipp Hungerländer , Christian Truden

In This paper we present a genetic algorithm for the multi-pickup and delivery problem with time windows (m-PDPTW). The m-PDPTW is an optimization vehicles routing problem which must meet requests for transport between suppliers and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Imen Harbaoui Dridi , Ryan Kammarti , Mekki Ksouri , Pierre Borne

This paper introduces a novel compact mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation and a discretization discovery-based solution approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW). We aim to solve the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Udayan Mandal , Amelia Regan , Louis Martin Rousseau , Julian Yarkony

This paper addresses a new vehicle routing problem that simultaneously involves time windows, split collection and linear weight-related cost, which is a generalization of the split delivery vehicle routing problem with time windows…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Zhixin Luo , Hu Qin , Wenbin Zhu , Andrew Lim

We study the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) and stochastic travel times, in which the decision-maker observes related contextual information, represented as feature variables, before making routing decisions. Despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Breno Serrano , Alexandre M. Florio , Stefan Minner , Maximilian Schiffer , Thibaut Vidal

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW) is a fundamental NP-hard optimization problem in logistics. Solving large-scale instances remains computationally challenging for exact solvers. This paper introduces a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mustafa Mert Özyılmaz
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