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Inventory management, vehicle routing, and delivery scheduling decisions are simultaneously considered in the context of the inventory routing problem. This paper focuses on the continuous-time version of this problem where, unlike its more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Akang Wang , Xiandong Li , Jeffrey E. Arbogast , Zachary Wilson , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

Routing problems are a class of combinatorial problems with many practical applications. Recently, end-to-end deep learning methods have been proposed to learn approximate solution heuristics for such problems. In contrast, classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Wouter Kool , Herke van Hoof , Joaquim Gromicho , Max Welling

Heavy goods vehicles are vital backbones of the supply chain delivery system but also contribute significantly to carbon emissions with only 60% loading efficiency in the United Kingdom. Collaborative vehicle routing has been proposed as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Stefan Schoepf , Stephen Mak , Julian Senoner , Liming Xu , Netland Torbjörn , Alexandra Brintrup

The vehicle routing problem has great importance and application in transportation and supply chain management. In this case, there are several supply requests in a transportation network. The main goal is to allocate customers to available…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 H. Bigdeli , S. M. S. Mirdamadi , A. Deaconu , J. Tayyebi

This paper investigates the problem of assigning shipping requests to ad hoc couriers in the context of crowdsourced urban delivery. The shipping requests are spatially distributed each with a limited time window between the earliest time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Tanvir Ahamed , Bo Zou , Nahid Parvez Farazi , Theja Tulabandhula

Transportation is an essential area in the nowadays society, both for business sector and citizenry. There are different kinds of transportation systems, each one with its own characteristics. In the same way, various areas of knowledge can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Eneko Osaba

This paper presents an integrated algorithmic framework for minimising product delivery costs in e-commerce (known as the cost-to-serve or C2S). One of the major challenges in e-commerce is the large volume of spatio-temporally diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Omkar Shelke , Pranavi Pathakota , Anandsingh Chauhan , Harshad Khadilkar , Hardik Meisheri , Balaraman Ravindran

Multi-robot systems in automated warehouses must manage continuous streams of pickup-and-delivery tasks while ensuring efficiency and safety. Prior work on Multi-Agent Pickup-and-Delivery (MAPD) has largely focused on the one-to-one…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ethan Schneider , Jingkai Chen , Tianyi Gu , Kunlei Lian , Seth Hutchinson , Sonia Chernova

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

Fixed pickup and delivery times can strongly limit the performance of freight transportation. Against this backdrop, fleet operators can use compensation mechanisms such as monetary incentives to buy delay time from their customers, in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Canqi Yao , Shibo Chen , Mauro Salazar , Zaiyue Yang

Recently, there is an emerging trend to apply deep reinforcement learning to solve the vehicle routing problem (VRP), where a learnt policy governs the selection of next node for visiting. However, existing methods could not handle well the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Jingwen Li , Liang Xin , Zhiguang Cao , Andrew Lim , Wen Song , Jie Zhang

We consider the coordinated vehicle platooning problem on a tree network with time constraints while the routes of vehicles are given. The problem is to coordinate the departure time of each vehicle to enable platoon formation hence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Fengqiao Luo

The vehicle routing problem with two-dimensional loading constraints (2L-CVRP) and the last-in-first-out (LIFO) rule presents significant practical and algorithmic challenges. While numerous heuristic approaches have been proposed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yifan Xia , Xiangyi Zhang

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

In this paper, we study a dynamic pickup and delivery problem with docking constraints. There is a homogeneous fleet of vehicles to serve pickup-and-delivery requests at given locations. The vehicles can be loaded up to their capacity,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Markó Horváth , Tamás Kis , Péter Györgyi

We study the problem of servicing a set of ride requests by dispatching a set of shared vehicles, which is faced by ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. Solving this problem at a large scale might be crucial in the future for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Valentin Buchhold , Peter Sanders , Dorothea Wagner

We consider a family of Rich Vehicle Routing Problems (RVRP) which have the particularity to combine a heterogeneous fleet with other attributes, such as backhauls, multiple depots, split deliveries, site dependency, open routes, duration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Puca Huachi Vaz Penna , Anand Subramanian , Luiz Satoru Ochi , Thibaut Vidal , Christian Prins

We investigate a location-allocation-routing problem where trucks deliver goods from a central production facility to a set of warehouses with fixed locations and known demands. Due to limited capacities congestion occurs and results in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Vanessa Lange , Hans Daduna

We consider the Maximum-Profit Routing Problem (MPRP), a variant of pick-up routing problem introduced in \cite{Armaselu-arXiv-2016, Armaselu-PETRA}, in which the goal is to maximize total profit. The original MPRP restricts vehicles to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bogdan Armaselu

We study the routing problem for vehicles with limited energy through a network of inhomogeneous charging nodes. This is substantially more complicated than the homogeneous node case studied in [1]. We seek to minimize the total elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Sepideh Pourazarm , Christos G. Cassandras