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This study introduces the Territory Design for Dynamic Multi-Period Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (TD-DMPVRPTW), motivated by a real-world application at a food company's distribution center. This problem deals with the design…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Hernán Lespay , Karol Suchan

Nowadays, the transport goods problem occupies an important place in the economic life of modern societies. The pickup and delivery problem with time windows (PDPTW) is one of the problems which a large part of the research was interested.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-06 Imen Harbaoui Dridi , Ryan Kammarti , Mekki Ksouri , Pierre Borne

For many kinds of vehicle routing problems (VRPs), a popular heuristic approach involves constructing a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) solution, referred to as a long tour, then partitioning segments of the solution into routes for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ethan Gibbons , Mario Ventresca , Beatrice M. Ombuki-Berman

The PDPTW is an optimization vehicles routing problem which must meet requests for transport between suppliers and customers satisfying precedence, capacity and time constraints. We present, in this paper, a genetic algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-03 Imen Harbaoui Dridi , Ryan Kammarti , Pierre Borne , Mekki Ksouri

Multi-vehicle routing problem with soft time windows (MVRPSTW) is an indispensable constituent in urban logistics distribution systems. Over the past decade, numerous methods for MVRPSTW have been proposed, but most are based on heuristic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Ke Zhang , Meng Li , Zhengchao Zhang , Xi Lin , Fang He

The PDPTW is an optimization vehicles routing problem which must meet requests for transport between suppliers and customers satisfying precedence, capacity and time constraints. We present, in this paper, a genetic algorithm for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-06 Imen Harbaoui Dridi , Ryan Kammarti , Pierre Borne , Mekki Ksouri

Many real-world vehicle routing problems involve rich sets of constraints with respect to the capacities of the vehicles, time windows for customers etc. While in recent years first machine learning models have been developed to solve basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Jonas K. Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

We study a new variant of the well-studied Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW), called the fragility-constrained VRPTW, which assumes that 1) the capacity of a vehicle is organized in multiple identical stacks; 2) all items…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Clément Altman , Guy Desaulniers , Fausto Errico

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

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Imen Harbaoui Dridi , Ryan Kammarti , Mekki Ksouri , Pierre Borne

This paper presents a generic technique for improving hybrid algorithms through the discovery of and tuning of meta-heuristics. The idea is to represent a family of push/pull heuristics that are based upon inserting and removing tasks in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yves Caseau , Glenn Silverstein , Francois Laburthe

The dynamic vehicle routing problem with time windows (DVRPTW) is a generalization of the classical VRPTW to an online setting, where customer data arrives in batches and real-time routing solutions are required. In this paper we adapt the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Mohammed Ghannam , Ambros Gleixner

Logistics and transport are core of many industrial and business processes. One of the most promising segments in the field is optimisation of vehicle routes. Scientific effort is focused primarily on algorithms developed in simplified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Nikica Peric , Slaven Begovic , Vinko Lesic

This paper deals with the Pollution-Routing Problem (PRP), a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) with environmental considerations, recently introduced in the literature by [Bektas and Laporte (2011), Transport. Res. B-Meth. 45 (8), 1232-1250].…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Raphael Kramer , Anand Subramanian , Thibaut Vidal , Lucídio dos Anjos Formiga Cabral

The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem (EVRP) extends the capacitated vehicle routing problem by incorporating battery constraints and charging stations, posing significant optimization challenges. This paper introduces a Trilevel Memetic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ivan Milinović , Leon Stjepan Uroić , Marko Đurasević

The offline pickup and delivery problem with time windows (PDPTW) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem in the transportation community, which has proven to be very challenging computationally. Due to the complexity of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Youngseo Kim , Danushka Edirimanna , Michael Wilbur , Philip Pugliese , Aron Laszka , Abhishek Dubey , Samitha Samaranayake

Finding a feasible and prompt solution to the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a prerequisite for efficient freight transportation, seamless logistics, and sustainable mobility. Traditional optimization methods reach their limits when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Elija Deineko , Carina Kehrt

We introduce the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows and Scheduling on the Edges (PDPTW-SE), a generalization of the PDPTW that integrates vehicle routing and machine scheduling. The problem involves defining routes for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Vítor A. Barbosa , Sunil Tiwari , Rafael A. Melo

In this research, a new variant of the vehicle routing problem with time windows is addressed. The nodes associated with the customers are related to each other through AND/OR precedence constraints. The objective is minimizing the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Mina Roohnavazfar , Seyed Hamid Reza Pasandideh , Roberto Tadei

The Moving Target Vehicle Routing Problem (MT-VRP) seeks trajectories for several agents that intercept a set of moving targets, subject to speed, time window, and capacity constraints. We introduce an exact algorithm, Branch-and-Price with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Anoop Bhat , Geordan Gutow , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Station-based or Route-based Charging Options addresses fleet optimization incorporating both conventional charging stations and continuous wireless charging infrastructure. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Tran Trung Duc , Vu Duc Minh , Nguyen Ngoc Doanh , Pham Gia Nguyen , Laurent El Ghaoui , Ha Minh Hoang